1. Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe's Oval Portrait
Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. ... (Poe 1975: 290). ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ...
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