Tomb or Womb: The Freudian Approach to Live Burial in Edgar Allan Poe‘s "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Premature Burial" PDF Download
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Author: Gaj Tomas Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640983912 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 26
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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: There is a certain clever rhetoric from the buried protagonist in the introduction ―The Premature Burial‖, Edgar Allan Poe‘s tale: ―The boundaries which divide Life from Death, are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and the other begins?― (Poe 322), as he finds himself ―buried‖ in what he believes to be a coffin, as the story starts to intrigue us with one of the most terrifying and arguably uncanny experiences – live burial. The narrator is obsessed, a walking ―dead man‖, who eventually saves himself from the terrifying experience and exaggerated fear, but not from the uncanny feeling. It is as much dreadful as when we as readers perceive the buried-alive Lady Madeline Usher breaking the vault steel door of her coffin, uttering eerie sounds and appearing bloody at her brother Roderick‘s door in Poe‘s even more gruesome tale, ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖. The protagonists too are quite different, as are the representations of the motive of live burial in both stories – one hand we deal with, as this essay will try and prove, an evident incestuous relationship and perhaps Roderick‘s certain repressed wishes, and on the other hand the exaggerated, almost satiric general fear of a seemingly cataleptic state and death.
Author: Gaj Tomas Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640983912 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 26
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: There is a certain clever rhetoric from the buried protagonist in the introduction ―The Premature Burial‖, Edgar Allan Poe‘s tale: ―The boundaries which divide Life from Death, are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and the other begins?― (Poe 322), as he finds himself ―buried‖ in what he believes to be a coffin, as the story starts to intrigue us with one of the most terrifying and arguably uncanny experiences – live burial. The narrator is obsessed, a walking ―dead man‖, who eventually saves himself from the terrifying experience and exaggerated fear, but not from the uncanny feeling. It is as much dreadful as when we as readers perceive the buried-alive Lady Madeline Usher breaking the vault steel door of her coffin, uttering eerie sounds and appearing bloody at her brother Roderick‘s door in Poe‘s even more gruesome tale, ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖. The protagonists too are quite different, as are the representations of the motive of live burial in both stories – one hand we deal with, as this essay will try and prove, an evident incestuous relationship and perhaps Roderick‘s certain repressed wishes, and on the other hand the exaggerated, almost satiric general fear of a seemingly cataleptic state and death.
Author: Gaj Tomas Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3640984129 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 29
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Graz, language: English, abstract: There is a certain clever rhetoric from the buried protagonist in the introduction ―The Premature Burial‖, Edgar Allan Poe's tale: ―The boundaries which divide Life from Death, are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and the other begins?― (Poe 322), as he finds himself ―buried‖ in what he believes to be a coffin, as the story starts to intrigue us with one of the most terrifying and arguably uncanny experiences - live burial. The narrator is obsessed, a walking ―dead man‖, who eventually saves himself from the terrifying experience and exaggerated fear, but not from the uncanny feeling. It is as much dreadful as when we as readers perceive the buried-alive Lady Madeline Usher breaking the vault steel door of her coffin, uttering eerie sounds and appearing bloody at her brother Roderick's door in Poe's even more gruesome tale, ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖. The protagonists too are quite different, as are the representations of the motive of live burial in both stories - one hand we deal with, as this essay will try and prove, an evident incestuous relationship and perhaps Roderick's certain repressed wishes, and on the other hand the exaggerated, almost satiric general fear of a seemingly cataleptic state and death.
Author: Lee Edelman Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822385988 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 206
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In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself. Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers.
Author: Maurice Blanchot Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803278772 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 393
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Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention. Thus he explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This book consists not so much in the application of a critical method or the demonstration of a theory of literature as in a patiently deliberate meditation upon the literary experience, informed most notably by studies of Mallarmé, Kafka, Rilke, and Hölderlin. Blanchot's discussions of those writers are among the finest in any language.
Author: Walter Isaacson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743274830 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 573
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A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson. Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklin’s life and impact as a writer, and each piece is accompanied by a preface and notes that provide background, context, and analysis.
Author: Martin Gardner Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486131629 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
Author: Gary Morris Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 184331312X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 370
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Action! draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the Bright Lights Film Journal, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died. The book also benefits from many rare photographs of these great directors on set, and scenes from their groundbreaking works.
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