Expository Essay Have you ever thought of the romantic era of literature and what it symbolizes. ... Another gothic example in the raven is the description of his room or study which goes like this "On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o"er, but whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o"er". ... And in the raven how it displayed the room or study and what it looked liked. ... In all Romantic literature can be defined in many way's and portrayed through many different story's. Romantic literature and it's elements including th...

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When one thinks about gothic literature, one certain name comes to mind: Edgar Allan Poe. ... Usher's reasoning was so that no scientists would dig her up to study whatever disease she had; however, we learn that he didn't actually think that Madeline was dead when he buried her. ... Poe's gothic literature will keep reader's questioning their animas and monsters that are suppressed in the deepest parts of our minds....

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Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. ... By the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Alexander Wilcox to study law. ... At age 22 he had decided to completely give law up and devote his time to literature. ... He was not only the first person in America who ventured to pursue literature as a profession, but almost the first to make an attempt in the field of imaginative writing, disconnected with the advocacy of any question of national or local interest." ...

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Edger Allan Poe was the first writer to start horror, death, and mystery into literature and poetry. ... It was also in England where young Poe took interest in Gothic literature, which was very popular at that time. However, John Allan forbad him from studying what his heart desired: poetry. ... His influence on literature is seen in all literature books in schools everywhere. ...

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Not only does Ligeia's unusual beauty represents the main theme throughout the story, but the text reflects Poe's rejecting the "ordinary", a common theme in literature. ... I was never made aware of her entrance into my closed study". ...

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The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and indicates a growing awareness among authors that the "self " is really a composite of many "selves ". ... The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... Many critics consider Poe the founder of the so called doppelganger technique, in literature. ... More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of...

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"This relationship of the real and the imaginary - of the practical and theoretical - underpins his study throughout." ( Re-placing Madness and Civilisation, Stuart Elden page 4.) ... In literature characters are created using these binaries, giving them the ability to act in a particular subject position. ... These binaries create the discourse by which society operates and regulates it through division and in literature, the subject position. ...

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Within the tenet of imagination is "intuition", which states that knowledge, which comes automatically without study and without use of mind, is superior to the intellect. ... I also believe it was a great period because it was the start of good, interesting, and fun American literature....

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an actress who had also been a leading lady in society. His father was David Poe, Jr., an actor who pursued a less succuessful career ruined by his drinking problems. Around Edgar's second birthday, his f...

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Moreover, although Poe has probably influenced more artists then any other writer in American literature, academic critics and university professors have never been comfortable with him, often convinced that he was at best an entertainer of adolescents and at worst a third-rate hack (Thompson 48). The recent studies by phenomenological and poststructuralist critics have begun to justify what loyal Poe readers have always intuitively felt that he was a genius who perhaps more then any other writer of fiction in 19th century America understood the nature of narrative. ...

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