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- W2505520444 abstract "Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” which first appeared in Graham’s Magazine in 1841, briefly charts the unfortunate life, and even more unfortunate death, of a pitiful character called Toby Dammit. Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn refers to the tale as “an amusing satire on things in general, the New England Transcendentalists in particular [which] contains a defence [sic] by Poe against the charge that he had never written a moral tale” (324–25). Boisterous Toby Dammit, against the better judgment of his friend (the narrator), takes his friend’s simple enough bet, which would have him leap over an obstacle. Dammit acknowledges the challenge with his typical claim to assured success: “I’ll bet the devil my head …” At this, an old man—the devil—materializes and sees the claim through to its bitter end. In Poe’s telling, the devil is a suspiciously polite and patient bystander who tempts Dammit to abandon caution (Poe 464–65). Lulled into a false sense of security, and fortified by an affected air of invincibility, Dammit makes a running leap over an oddly placed turnstile that is at the end of a covered bridge. Dammit decapitates himself on an outcropping that is above the obstacle. “In any event,” Quinn concludes, “it [the story] is a trifle” (325). If it is a trifle, it is a dense one that teases readers with something of a universal moral message, albeit one that is enhanced by reading for contextual and cultural specificity." @default.
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- W2505520444 title "Rethinking Fellini’s Poe: Nonplaces, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity" @default.
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