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Type: | Dissertação de Mestrado |
Title: | Edgar Allan Poe: the fall of the masque |
Authors: | Julio Cesar Jeha |
First Advisor: | Ana Lucia Almeida Gazzola |
First Referee: | Vera Lúcia Andrade |
Second Referee: | Thomas Laborie Burns |
Abstract: | This dissertation is a study of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Masque of the Red Death," as representative tales of the Gothic and, by extension, of the fantastic mode. It has two axes: one is a survey of critical theories on the fantastic and its main manifestation, the Gothic, in an attempt to distinguish the constituents of the mode and to apply them to a reading of Poe's tales. The other axis is centred in one of such constituents, an esoteric substractum which underlies both texts and is fundamental to Poe's metaphysics as expressed in his aesthetics. Finally, the specular construction of the texts is examined, as well as the use of intertextuality and the ideological questions projected in terms of a theory of knowledge. |
Subject: | Literatura americana Séc XIX História e crítica Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Critica e interpretação Literatura fantástica Literatura |
language: | Inglês |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-9GFGVN |
Issue Date: | 28-Jun-1986 |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertações de Mestrado |
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