David Ketterer
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| - | "'''Loss of Breath: A Tale Neither in nor Out of "[[Blackwood's Magazine|Blackwood]]'''" ([[1832]]) is a short story by [[Poe]], first published on [[June 9]] [[1832]]. It concerns a man who suspects that his wife has [[stolen]] his [[breath]]. | + | '''David Ketterer''' is an North-American [[literary theorist]] concerned with [[science fiction]]. |
| - | [[David Ketterer]] describes the story as: "A surrealistic fantasy in which the idea that death involves not loss of life but merely loss of breath is combined with a whimsical but, for biographers of Poe's psyche, revealing equation between loss of breath and loss of sexual potency on the narrator's wedding night".[http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/backissues/3/ketter3bib.htm] | + | He is mentioned in |
| - | == Having cut off my ears == | + | |
| - | :"The purchaser took me to his apartments and commenced operations immediately. Having cut off my [[ear]]s, however, he discovered signs of animation. He now rang the bell, and sent for a neighboring apothecary with whom to consult in the emergency. In case of his suspicions with regard to my existence proving ultimately correct, he, in the meantime, made an incision in my [[stomach]], and removed several of my [[viscera]] for private dissection. " | + | * [[James Blish]] |
| - | == Full text == | + | * [[Pilgrim Award]] |
| - | *http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Loss_of_Breath | + | * [[Definitions of science fiction]] |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | *[[Breath]] | + | |
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David Ketterer is an North-American literary theorist concerned with science fiction.
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