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In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

In ten pages this paper considers the speculation surrounding Poe's death and concludes that his premature passing may have been t...

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...

In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...

"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...

In five pages this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...

precipitates her husbands horrific discovery and subsequent madness" (Frushell 18). That Ligeia represents everlasting love not o...

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...