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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Edgar Allan Poe"”.
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… is important for a thorough understanding of the poem because it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the narrator's unstable state of mind, a state that inevitably leads to a collapse of the self. This instability is …
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The French Response to the Genius of Edgar Allan Poe
… to establish or to evaluate the position of Edgar Allan Poe. Generalities were made all too freely. In fact, one biographer says that Poe has had more of them than any other author of his day. Without analytical substantiation, moreover, contemporaries called him either a. willful eccentric …
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Reading the Transatlantic Gothic Fiction of Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe
… Transatlantic Gothic Fiction of Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe looks to provide more detail about publishing histories, peritexts such as epigraphs and footnotes, the grotesque as a literary aesthetic, and the politics that surround these issues. Each chapter engages with scholarly research on …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… of subjectivity at work in the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The analysis is largely confined to the short fiction, although some reference is made to Poe's other work; twentyone tales are examined, in greater or lesser detail, with the aid of various theoretical perspectives - sociological, …
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The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… explores the Orientalist discourse in four of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and two of his prose essays. The major aspects of Orientalism examined in Poe's works rely on the theoretical ideas of Edward Said's Orientalism and other ideas developed by important Arab writers. Said and other Arab writers …
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The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England
… Magazine on the literary aesthetic of Edgar Allan Poe. While Poe's early works read very similar to Blackwood's articles, he positioned himself against Blackwood's in the middle of his career and developed a different, although derivative, approach to psychological fiction. I next …
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La imaginación herida. La fractura de la visión romántica en los poemas “largos” de Edgar Allan Poe
… han querido Baudelaire, Benjamin, Eliot y otros, Poe es el padre de la poesía moderna, conviene precisar en qué fase de su obra se consuma la ruptura con el Romanticismo —en concreto, con la aspiración visionaria e imaginativa a la que se consagran los poetas más representativos del Romanticismo …
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville
… and directions of the narratives that Poe and Melville set at sea. What is proposed here is a rethinking of American sea fiction from the unique perspective of its racial dynamics, especially with regard to what Toni Morrison has called the "Black/Africanist presence" in American …
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The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
… is a rhapsody for viola and orchestra based on Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the same title. It contains quotations from the few sketches that Debussy left for his unfinished work, Le diable dans le beffroi. Quoting Debussy’s sketches was the sensible course of action, since they have the same …
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Trembling Earth
… it to my work. Literary sources such as Edgar Allan Poe and Fanny Kemble help spark a vision of the landscape. Visual influences include Japanese woodblock prints, scenic wallpapers, vintage postcards and Victorian mourning pictures. My regional explorations span the James River, …
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Word and image : Doré/Poe : an enquiry into the role of word and image in the late Romantic period, with specific interest in the participation of Gustave Doré, Edgar Allan Poe and the influence of the gothic revival
… image, with specific interest into the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Gustave Doré. The twenty six illustrations that Doré executed for Poe's The Raven form the basis of the study. The intention is, through analysis of the illustration, to identify the interplay between word and image and also …
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Alteridade e fragmentação do eu na obra de E. A. Poe: a trilogia de Auguste Dupin da palavra à imagem
… trabalho, procuramos enquadrar a obra de Edgar Allan Poe no campo dos estudos interartes à luz do motivo do Duplo, destacando a desconstrução da personalidade das suas personagens literárias, atendendo em particular à fragmentação do eu da personagem Auguste Dupin, nos seus Tales of …
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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
… has been depicted in the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe, Don DeLillo, and Mary Shelley. It examines the ways in which artistic renderings alternately assimilate, resist, and/or critique dominant philosophical, psychological, and scientific discourses about the self and its divisions. This …
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Paradigms of reality in Poe's mad narrative
… madness in four short stories by American author 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 …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… human behavior through moral treatment. Both Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville drew upon the cultural construction of mental abnormality during their time and formulated mad characters that worked to destabilize the medical perceptions of madness as behavioral deviations from social …
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Poe as a critic.
Edgar Allan Poe is generally accepted as the first important American critic. He was the first to establish definite principles of criticism, and he applied them to his own work as well as to his criticism of the work of others. He set forth these principles in The Philosophy of Composition, The …
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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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