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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ligeia"”.
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Représentations de la femme dans Bruges-la-morte de Georges Rodenbach, La chevelure de Guy de Maupassant et Ligeia de Edgar A. Poe
… Georges Rodenbach, em articulação com os contos Ligeia de Edgar Allan Poe e La chevelure de Guy de Maupassant, no sentido de descodificar os vectores que compõem as representações da mulher, no âmbito mais específico do imaginário finissecular. Centra-se na leitura comparativa e rigorosa do …
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Paradigms of reality in Poe's mad narrative
… 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 probability in an …
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Monster Quest: Background Myth and Contemporary Context of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
<p>Poe's short story "Ligeia" and its companion poem "The Conqueror Worm" have garnered little critical attention, though he believed them to be his best works. Considering the archetypal image of the worm, contemporary references, and Poe's other uses of the symbol, an analysis of the poem and its …
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Exploring the Surface Liquid and Lake Regions of Titan with Laboratory Experimentation and Cassini Spacecraft Data
… <p>A geological characterization of Ligeia Mare, the second largest sea on Titan, was performed utilizing Cassini SAR swaths. SAR swaths were mosaicked, and the mosaic interpreted so as to identify the principle components of the surrounding terrain. Interpretations related to …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… 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 to the narrator of "The Raven." Through this comparison recurrent themes …
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The grotesque in Gogol and Poe
… <p>Similarly, a close reading of Poe’s “Ligeia” in the context of <em>Eureka</em>, “The Colloquy of Monos and Una,” “Eleonora,” “The Oval Portrait,” “The Poetic Principle,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” and his other critical writings focuses on the positive aspects of the grotesque in …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… in the male unconscious ('The Oval Portrait', 'Ligeia'); and the disintegration of the subject under the pressure of its own repressions ('The Fall of the House of Usher'). Particular stress is laid throughout on the textual undermining of the dividing-lines between "normal" and "abnormal", …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… Dream of the Red Chamber. Edgar Allan Poe's ""Ligeia,"" and Liu E's The Travels of Laocan. The central idea of the research is to question such assumptions as made by Anthony Burgess in his article on the novel in The Encyelopaedia Britannica (15th ed) that ""novelists, being neither poets nor …
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Constraining the average fill densities of Mars' lowlands and fluvial erosion of Titan's polar regions.
… the margins of Titan's polar lakes, including Ligeia Mare, Kraken Mare, and Punga Mare in the north and Ontario Lacus in the south, ranges from 4% to 31% of the initial relief. Additional model simulations show that this amount of fluvial erosion does not render craters invisible at the …