Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Spielhagen. Their Theory of the Short Story.

1910 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Palmer Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Clues to an Old Mystery Using 21st Century Medical Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Documented Information ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Magazine Articles

This study examines all documented information regarding the final days and death of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), in an attempt to determine the most likely cause of death of the American poet, short story writer, and literary critic. Information was gathered from letters, newspaper accounts, and magazine articles written during the period after Poe's death, and also from biographies and medical journal articles written up until the present. A chronology of Poe's final days was constructed, and this was used to form a differential diagnosis of possible causes of death. Death theories over the last 160 years were analyzed using this information. This analysis, along with a review of Poe's past medical history, would seem to support an alcohol-related cause of death.

scholarly journals Anti-transcendentalism and dark romanticism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

Entrelinhas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
Sofia Lopes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The 19Th Century

This review seeks to analyse the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and to study its connection to the anti-transcendentalist and dark romantic movements. Through an examination of the literary aspects contained in the story, this work aims to inspect Poe's writing style, notedly marked by a bold approach of the themes of death, mourning and decay, and to compare his aesthetic decisions - such as the strong symbolic streak, the reliance on colour and architecture and the artistic depiction of death - to the chief tenets that influenced anti-transcendentalist writers over the 19th century.

Houses and the Fate of Families : A Comparison of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Eszter Enikő Mohácsi
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family

In Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the house where the events unfold is described as a sentient being, and its first description forebodes the occurrence of dark events. In addition, Poe utilizes the house of Usher to show how the fate of the house and its inhabitants are connected. The House of Usher stands for the building itself as well as the family, and Usher himself believes that the house is alive and can also exert its influence on the people living in it. The house of Thomas Sutpen in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is equally significant and is used to symbolize Sutpen’s will to establish his dynasty. The house is furnished luxuriously to establish his reputation in society, and Sutpen finally succeeds in bringing home a wife to the completed house. However, after the war the house is in ruins and Sutpen is unable to defy his fate anymore: he cannot rebuild the house, which – several years later – is burnt down by his own daughter, the partly black Clytemnestra. This paper compares and contrasts the houses and their function in the two works.

The Decadent Short Story

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Concerns

The short story form and decadence are not only coterminous in 1890s Britain, but they also share common roots, as both hark back to Edgar Allan Poe. Even though the decadent short story eludes definition, it emphasizes style and rarefied subjectivity against the conventional Victorian novel’s emphasis on plot-driven narratives built around traditional moral values and social concerns. It is a self-conscious cross-genre that explores multifariously the tension between artificiality and life, thus reflecting the experimentalist ethos of its major outlet, the little magazine. In doing so, the decadent short story is distinguished by “excess in quintessence,” a paradox in which morbidity in its thematic and stylistic manifestations is enhanced by the delimiting nature of the form. This paradox makes the decadent short story “plotless,” static, and evanescent. Charlotte Mew’s “Passed” (1894), M. P. Shiel’s “Xélucha” (1895), and Jean Lorrain’s “The Man Who Loved Consumptives” (1891) consummately demonstrate its qualities.

scholarly journals THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS OF SHORT STORY THE BLACK CAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Dewi Fatmawati ◽  
Tengku Silvana Sinar ◽  
Rohani Ganie ◽  
Muhammad Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Dominant Pattern ◽  
Progression Patterns ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study attempts to investigate thematic progression deployed in The Black Cat short story. The objectives of study are 1) To indicate the types of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story and 2) to describe the realization of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story. This study was conducted in descriptive qualitative design. The data were taken from the text of “The Black Cat” short story. The source of the data in this study was The Black Cat and Other Stories book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Systemic Functional Linguistics theory proposed by Halliday (1994) was used to analyzed thematic progression in “The Black Cat” short story regarded with Textual Function. In analyzing the thematic progression, there are three kinds of thematic progression: theme reiteration, the zig-zag pattern and the multiple- rheme pattern. The findings showed that the multiple- rheme pattern is the most dominant realized in 32 times (74%), theme reiteration is the second realized in 7 times (16,3%), and the zig-zag pattern is realized in 4 times (9,3%) and the least dominant pattern in “The Black Cat” short story.

scholarly journals Blurring Borders: the self, the wanderer and the observer in Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire and Machado de Assis

AmeriQuests ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Philippov
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
The Self ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Wanderer ◽  
Do So

Much has been published and discussed in relation to Edgar Allan Poe’s and Charles Baudelaire’s intertextual dialogues, as well as to the French reception of Poe’s writings and aesthetic theories through Baudelaire’s translations and essays. Likewise, there have been several studies in Brazil comparing Poe’s and Brazilian writer Machado de Assis’ short stories and individual aesthetic theories, as well as studies regarding Baudelaire’s aesthetic reception in 19th century Brazilian literature. However, despite some academic studies and papers in Brazil referring more closely to their literary projects and their possible intertextual bindings, a deeper study into how Machado de Assis may have actually read and subverted Poe’s writings so as to fit it within his own framework and thus help foster his project of defending the formation of a national literary identity still needs to be carried out. The same may be said about both Baudelaire’s role in Poe and Machado de Assis’ literary encounter and Machado de Assis’ reception of Baudelaire’s aesthetic theories and poetics. In this paper, therefore, I want to take a transatlantic voyage while addressing the question of how Machado de Assis may have actually incorporated and, paradoxically, subverted Poe’s and Baudelaire’s imagery, topoi and aesthetics into his own literary project. Two broad aspects regarding the three authors’ writings will be tackled: the universe of mind and man’s isolation vis-à-vis society, within the scope of the fantastic as a genre. To do so, I will focus on “Só!” [Alone/Lonely], a short-story published by Machado de Assis in 1885, thus aiming at addressing how the self, the wanderer and the observer appear in this story and how they dialogue with the same figures in some of Poe’s and Baudelaire’s writings.

scholarly journals Investigating Lexical Cohesive Devices in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” in Arabic Translation

لارك ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (40) ◽  
pp. 1155-1135
Author(s):  
Khalida H. Tisgam Asst. Prof.
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Full Explanation

With the aim of investigating the lexical cohesive devices, a short story from the American literature; namely, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, is taken as the data of study. The study adopts the framework of Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) by which two major categories of lexical cohesion; reiteration and collocation, are examined. To make the investigation possible, a full explanation of the lexical cohesive devices in both English and Arabic is presented to have a vivid image of the differences and similarities between them and to discuss their possible effect on translation. The results obtained reveal that lexical cohesion in Poe’s short story is founded on repetition, synonymy and collocation but the inadequate command of these devices by the translator leads to the distortion of translation

Nāzik al-Malāʾikah and Edgar Allan Poe: Their Poetry and Related Poetics

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 108-129
Author(s):  
Boutheina Khaldi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer

Abstract This study argues that Nāzik al-Malāʾikah’s poetics—as indicated in her “Introduction” to her collection Shaẓāyā wa-ramād and her book Qaḍāyā al-shiʿr al-muʿāṣir—is in conversation with the famous American poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe’s poetics. This affinity has not been properly noted by critics, as their discussions have been limited to issues of form, content, or borrowings from Poe’s poems. This article argues that al-Malāʾikah’s elaborations on Poe are more profound than hitherto assumed since they articulate a different kind of formal poetics altogether. The chief characteristics of this poetics can be identified as sound/rhythm, concision, refrain (or repetition, with variation). While these innovative instances are foundational in her literary criticism, her poetry also conveys other venues of indebtedness and conversation.

Munich: Ferneyhough's ‘Shadowtime’ and other new operas at the Biennale

Tempo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (230) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Graham Lack
Keyword(s):  
Epoxy Resin ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
New Music

We trust the word is not too forthright, but ‘puerile’ might legitimately be levied against the new opera Berenice by Johannes Maria Staud. Premièred on 12 May this year as part of the 9th Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre at the city's Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, this first attempt at the genre by the Austrian-born composer Staud renders, blow by blow, the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The libretto, by Durs Grünbein, sticks closely to the famous writer's narrative like epoxy resin. Played without an interval, Berenice comes in at just under two hours; it seemed like two days.

scholarly journals The types of the chronotope in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by Edgar Poe

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Psychological Factor ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
The Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the time and space peculiarities in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by the American writer of the 19th century Edgar Allan Poe. The aim of the article is a analysis of artistic chronotope as a special way of influencing the reader and distinguishing the features of time and space in the analyzed work. E. Poe was the initiator of the «detective short story», the genre features of which are the description of the deduction of the character, the analysis of the event, generalized logical, mathematically accurate reasoning. The image of detective Auguste Dupin is the main in the short story. There are the real and historical chronotope in this detective short story. The author repeatedly focuses on spatial topos that form a unique authorial style. The character, through the perspective of the narrator's vision, is portrayed in detail, with the psychological factor closer to the finale intensifying, which allows to distinguish the features of personal chronotope. Real historical chronotope uses fictional topos or objects that represent a certain space that carry a symbolic load (the non-existent streets of Paris, the library, the room, etc.). The author skillfully combines real and fictional events to create a unique detective story. All topos are interconnected and complementary, leading to a deep understanding of artistic reality. Real, mystical, historical and social chronotopes are associated with deep psychology, which makes it possible to recreate events and find the right solution to solve the crime. The perspectives of the narrator and the short story's characters on the same event extend the boundaries of the chronotope, giving it additional features. This interconnection of chronotopes in the short story not only shapes the complex artistic world of the nineteenth century, but also makes it possible to refer the analyzed work to the literature of romanticism.

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