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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Black Cat"”.
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Animals as Projections of the Self in “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”
<p>In both “The Raven” and “The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe has the narrator project himself into an animal in order to fulfill the manifestation of his desire. Each animal is a projection of the narrator’s subconscious desire, which allows him to embrace his manic, sadistic tendencies. The …
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Mental [In]Stability: Isolation and Hallucination in the Horror Genre
… is a critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and <em>The Shining</em> by Stephen King. Mental [in]stability is defined and then used to describe how the protagonist in these stories moves from a place of realism, to a world where they no longer understand their reality. This idea of …
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Paradigms of reality in Poe's mad narrative
… Edgar Allan Poe: "Ligeia," "Eleonora," "The Black Cat," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Using Walter Fischer's theoretical communication framework, the Narrative Paradigm, the four stories are examined for narrative fidelity and narrative probability in an effort to more fully …
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Boat preference and stress behaviour of Hector's dolphin in response to tour boat interactions
… some generic dolphin behaviours, which often indicate stressed individuals may not apply to Hector's dolphins, and therefore question the assumption that all dolphin species behave in similar ways. We suggest that low-level tourist boat activity is not placing undue stress on the population. In …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… of Poe's short stories: "Berenice," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Ligeia," "The Mask of the Red Death," "The Premature Burial," and "The Tell-Tale Heart." The mental collapse that the narrators of these tales go through will then be compared …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'); the signification of alienation ('The Man of the Crowd') and self-destruction ('The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Black Cat', 'The Tell-Tale Heart') as constitutive of the subject at a determinate historical moment; the simultaneous construction and subversion of …
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… include, “Berenice” published in 1835 and “The Black Cat” which was published in 1843.</p> <p>When discussing the development of Poe’s earlier Gothic literature to his more current works, Andrew Smith suggests in his piece, <em>Victorian Gothic Death,</em> that, “there is either a view that the …
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The fantastic in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig and Joseph und seine Brüder
… by Todorov and refined by Brooke-Rose): ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and ‘Der Sandmann’. This chapter also attempts a hermeneutics of the fantastic by discussing each of the above mentioned stories in relation to morality, meaning and intention. Attempts to dismiss the putatively …