In the essay "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe argues that work of literary art should attain unity of effect, which he view as a point of the greatest importance. ... " Edgar Allan Poe became famous also for his developing of the Gothic literary tradition. ... Around these interests grew a whole body of literature [That] provided Poe with a literary milieu perfectly adapted to his taste and talent.... As Larzer Ziff puts it, "A Poe character is never more insane than at the moment he begins to reason with us.... As for motif of madness he contrasted several insane and ...

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The literary crafts used in "The Fall of the House of Usher"" and their effects, materializing the terror and the mystery, are what this paper is going to examine subsequently. ... In classic gothic fiction, another essential characteristic is doppelganger, a ghostly counterpart of a character, and Poe incorporated it massively in "The Fall of the House of Usher." ... By embodying multiple doppelganger, not only did Poe boost the intense spook, but he reached a unprecedented success of unifying terror and literary beauty. ... The symptom and the effect of the unknown power were apparent, but...

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Two of his literary works, "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", are perfectly evident of Poe's style. ... Poe also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time. ... Poe got a job as a literary critic where he became well known as a great writer and important critic. ... The characters he wrote about are often dominated by their emotions. ... His views on literary criticism appealed and still appeal to the reading public. ...

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The mystery surrounding the poet Edgar Allan Poe is not quite as thick as the mystery surrounding his enigmatic literary achievements. ... Reprinted more than almost any other literary work, in many styles, The Raven timelessly entices readers to dare to embrace the darkness of their inner night (Poe x). ... The main characters of his poems and stories are unilaterally alone, and the setting is most dark; "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" (Poe 12). ... His literary work was an indictment of futilit...

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character. ... His first volumes of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896...

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To further implement this idea the characters have no super human powers or strengths, they seem to be average people ""My friend, no. ... Poe in this particular story used the first person participant narration in which the Montresor ("I") is narrating the story where other characters as well as Montresor participate. ... Poe's use of symbolism is very creative from the names of the characters to the types of wines named in the story. ... "The Cask of Amontillado" had extensive usage of many literary devices. ... Another literary device Poe used many times in this story was foreshadowing...

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He received his first literary award, the World Fantasy Award, for "The Chimney- in 1978. ... Jack, the husband, is one of the two characters of the story. ... Campbell had to have mentally-weak and depressed characters in order to finish the story the way he did. He needed these types of characters to explain how depression can cause a man to go insane. ... Therefore, "The Sneering- exhibits three literary elements that contribute to the understanding of the story as does Campbell's life. ...

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Condemned by some critics for its tendencies toward Romanticism, a literary movement marked by melodramatic and maudlin exaggerations, "The Fall of the House of Usher" was nevertheless typical of Poe's short stories in that it presents a narrator thrust into a psychologically intense situation in which otherworldly forces conspire to drive at least one of the characters insane. ... The setting not only affects his telling of the story but changes the characters and action, too. ... The setting itself seems to infect the characters. Just as the atmosphere and landscape seem translated ...

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Poe made his way to Boston, where he planned on continuing his literary career. ... In 1835, he left his aunt's home to become an editor for the Southern Literary Messenger. ... His relationship with his wife was very close and intimate, for she was a safe haven for him from the troubles of the literary world (Bio.com). ... It was considered to be one of Poe's best works, a literary sensation. ... Critics believe that like his characters, he was caught between "sanity and insanity, order and chaos". ...

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The  doppelganger  is a literary technique in which a double (or look-alike) appears in the story as a representation of evil. 2. The doppelganger technique is a literary technique by which a character is duplicated (usually in the form of an alter ego, though sometimes as a ghostly counterpart) or divided into two distinct, usually opposite personalities. 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 ". ... In the same time, more critics wh...

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Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... Many of the character in these investigation shows are notable and very distinguished mostly due to their clever minds. ... One of the most well-known fictional characters in literature is the famous Sherlock Holmes. ... Watson, the character Sherlock Holmes was created by a Scottish author Sir. ... Holmes character was largely inspired by Poe's character C. ...

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Similarly, the odd behaviors of the unnamed main character in Mark Strand's "The Tunnel"" also lead one to conjecture the respectable and upright virtues of a character that we cannot help but to feel empathy and compassion for. As in any great literary work, both accounts engage the mind in such a way as to find a suitable explanation for their behaviors and their feelings. ... As Edgar Allan Poe chooses to indulge many emotions of the main character he draws the reader into an understanding of who the main character is and why he is drawn into such strong feelings and reactions. ... In ...

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Foreshadowing is a very interesting type of literary device. ... Usually it is the character of the story that gives out the clues but from time to time it may vary. Because foreshadowing usually comes in at the very beginning, you may not believe what the character tells you because you do not exactly know what kind of person he is, and if the character is some psychopath, obviously you are not going to believe him. ... As the story unfolds, the main character turns out to be a psychopath who doesn't know what he is talking about. ... Because of the crazy character, readers may not exact...

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Every author has a personal style of writing, which is generally carried out in every literary piece composed by that author. ... In "The Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allan Poe uses many different literary devices to convey his single effect of dullness and gloom. ... The emotions that Poe creates in the reader's mind through his descriptive language and imagery are both of disgust and sympathy for the character. ... The way both of the characters were introduced, with their appearance and the descriptions of all of the illnesses that they have, gave them a very negative connotation....

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Poe's use of setting, character, and language reveal that even an insane person feels guilt. ... Three elements of literary work that truly sum up the theme of "The Tell Tale Heart" are setting, character, and language. ...

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We undertake death-defying acts in order to conquer our fear and strengthen our character. ... With each step they take, Poe's characters rapidly remove themselves from rationality and the real world, only to lose themselves in an inescapable preoccupation with death. ...

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