Edgar Allan Poe's Aesthetic Theory, the Insanity Debate, and …
WEBDec 1, 2008 · For over one hundred years, critics have widely regarded Edgar Allan Poe as an aesthetician of literature as a whole, which has to a great extent oriented the interpretation of his prose narratives. In this essay I revisit Poe's relevant essays and reveal that Poe's aesthetic conception of the subject...
3 - Poe’s aesthetic theory - Cambridge University Press
WEBMay 28, 2006 · The word “aesthetic” and its cognates have clung to the name of Edgar Allan Poe. A handful of his more resonant statements about poetic art have found a place within histories of “aesthetic theory,” and he has formed a permanent posthumous association with the late-nineteenth century cultural …
WEBa set of ideas about Poe's aesthetic theories from an international perspective. Poe drew his aesthetics principally from Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, which itself was a drawing together of the scattered thoughts of the German Romantics. Poe's is not a system of aesthetics but a series of thoughts on the means of achieving poetic effect.
WEBMar 10, 2017 · This thesis will explore Edgar Allan Poe’s aesthetic influences, his place within the gothic tradition and describe the three elements that create his specific grotesque aesthetic: the affective reader, obsessive design, and haptic space.
WEBPoe's aesthetic theory and his nationalistic ambition to outstrip British lit-erature. My readings will hopefully bring an end to the efforts to resolve the apparent ambiguity in Poe's fantastic stories, as critics recognize how ambiguity serves the author's larger theoretical and historical goals.
WEBpopular, and aesthetic variations on the strange theme of an intermediate state between life and death, a state envisioned as both indeterminate and contained. My focus will be on tales by Edgar Allan Poe, especially the angelic dialogues, "Mes-meric Revelation," and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," that express in an exemplary (yet
WEBPoe saw poetry as a kind of music created by words, in which sound outweighs sense in importance. Thus, the aesthetic effect created by poetry had little to do with its literal or even figurative meaning, but everything to do with its rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, euphony, and sound.
5 - Poe and the Gothic tradition - Cambridge University Press
WEBMay 28, 2006 · A descent from such British milestones in literary Gothicism as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), William Beckford's Vathek (1786), W. H. Ireland's The Abbess (1798), or Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) is …
Project MUSE - Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe…
WEBPoe's aesthetic theory emphasizes the unity of effect and proposes a compositional model characterized by strong authorial control as a means for achieving such unity.
WEBexplained by Poe's aesthetic in which the "Moral Sense," "Con-science," and "Duty" have, at best, "only collateral relations" with the primary concerns: for poetry "The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty,"2 and for prose fiction "the unity of effect or im-1 Edgar Poe: Seer and Craftsman (Deland, Fla.: Everett/Edwards, I972), p. i8i.
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