Spell of Demise, Psychosis and Haunting: Gothicism as a Rudimentary Attribute in the Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Above mentioned article describes development of literary process in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. The article discusses the most influential figure of American Poetry Edgar Allan Poe. His immersive influence on art field. Generally his poetry is distinguished with expressing bitter truth about dark side of human nature. His works definitely express sympathy and love toward humans. Edgar Allen Poe is an inspiration for many modern writers, among them is Steven King. Generally Edgar Allen Poe’s works contain different genres, in the end he is genius, honest and human artist who worries about human’s condition.

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The HUGE presence of Lindley Murray

English Today ◽

10.1017/s0266078418000354 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 54-61

Author(s):

Lyda Fens–De Zeeuw

Keyword(s):

Charles Dickens ◽

George Eliot ◽

Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽

English Grammar ◽

Publication History ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Edgar Allen Poe ◽

To Receive ◽

Nicholas Nickleby

The grammarian Lindley Murray (1745–1826), according to Monaghan (1996), was the author of the best selling English grammar book of all times, calledEnglish Grammarand first published in 1795. Not surprisingly, therefore, his work was subjected to severe criticism by later grammarians as well as by authors of usage guides, who may have thought that Murray's success might negatively influence the sales figures of their own books. As the publication history of the grammar in Alston (1965) suggests, Murray was also the most popular grammarian of the late 18thand perhaps the entire 19thcentury, and this is most clearly reflected in the way in which a wide range of 19th- and even some 20th-century literary authors, from both sides of the Atlantic, mentioned Lindley Murray in their novels. Examples are Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852), George Eliot (Middlemarch, 1871–2), Charles Dickens, in several of his novels (Sketches by Boz, 1836;Nicholas Nickleby, 1838–9;The Old Curiosity Shop1840–1;Dombey & Son, 1846–8); Oscar Wilde (Miner and Minor Poets, 1887) and James Joyce (Ulysses, 1918) (Fens–de Zeeuw, 2011: 170–2). Another example is Edgar Allen Poe, who according to Hayes (2000) grew up with Murray's textbooks and used his writings as a kind of linguistic touchstone, especially in his reviews. Many more writers could be mentioned, and not only literary ones, for in a recent paper in which Crystal (2018) analysed the presence of linguistic elements in issues ofPunchpublished during the 19thcentury, he discovered that ‘[w]heneverPunchdebates grammar, it refers to Lindley Murray’. Murray, according to Crystal, ‘is the only grammarian to receive any mention throughout the period, and his name turns up in 19 articles’ (Crystal, 2018: 86). Murray had become synonymous with grammar prescription, and even in the early 20thcentury, he was still referred to as ‘the father of English Grammar’ (Johnson, 1904: 365).

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The Theory of Cognitive Consciousness, and Λ (Lambda)

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness ◽

10.1142/s2705078520500095 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 07 (02) ◽

pp. 155-181

Author(s):

Selmer Bringsjord ◽

G. Naveen Sundar

Keyword(s):

Formal Theory ◽

Artificial Agent ◽

Doctrine Of Double Effect ◽

Axiomatic Theory ◽

Ethical Decisions ◽

Auguste Dupin ◽

Different Dimensions ◽

Edgar Allen Poe ◽

Integrated Information Theory ◽

Theory Formula

We provide an overview of the theory of cognitive consciousness (TCC), and of [Formula: see text]; the latter provides a means of measuring the amount of cognitive consciousness present in a given cognizer, whether natural or artificial, at a given time, along a number of different dimensions. TCC and [Formula: see text] stand in stark contrast to Tononi’s Integrated information Theory (IIT) and [Formula: see text]. We believe, for reasons we present, that the former pair is superior to the latter. TCC includes a formal axiomatic theory, [Formula: see text], the 12 axioms of which we present and briefly comment upon herein; no such formal theory accompanies IIT/[Formula: see text]. TCC/[Formula: see text] and IIT/[Formula: see text] each offer radically different verdicts as to whether and to what degree AIs of yesterday, today, and tomorrow were/are/will be conscious. Another noteworthy difference between TCC/[Formula: see text] and IIT/[Formula: see text] is that the former enables the measurement of cognitive consciousness in those who have passed on, and in fictional characters; no such enablement is remotely possible for IIT/[Formula: see text]. For instance, we apply [Formula: see text] to measure the cognitive consciousness of: Descartes; and the first fictional detective to be described on Earth (by Edgar Allen Poe), Auguste Dupin. We also apply [Formula: see text] to compute the cognitive consciousness of an artificial agent able to make ethical decisions using the Doctrine of Double Effect.

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Edgar Allen Poe

10.4324/9780203195475 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Edgar Allen Poe

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A vénember lábnyoma

10.14232/americana.books.2011.gyuris ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Norbert Gyuris

Keyword(s):

Mark Twain ◽

Vladimir Nabokov ◽

Jonathan Swift ◽

Italo Calvino ◽

Umberto Eco ◽

Kurt Vonnegut ◽

Bret Easton Ellis ◽

John Fowles ◽

Edgar Allen Poe

A vénember lábnyoma – metafikció, szimuláció, hipertextualitás és szerzőség három szempontból vizsgálja meg a szerzőség kérdését. A hipertextualitást Italo Calvino Ha egy téli éjszakán az utazó című regényében, a szimulációelméletet J.R.R. Tolkien és Umberto Eco műveiben, a narratológiai szempontokat több amerikai és angol szerző könyvében (Alasdair Gray, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Swift, John Fowles, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allen Poe stb.) elemzi.

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