Pain and "Mourning" in Poe’s Tales
The purpose of this essay is to deepen into an aspect which has often been neglected by Spanish Poe. Researchers usually concentrate on the analysis of how the American writer treats death, and, above all, the death of a beautiful woman; however, hardly ever it is studied other funeral casuistry of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 205-213 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this essay is to deepen into an aspect which has often been neglected by Spanish Poe. Researchers usually concentrate on the analysis of how the American writer treats death, and, above all, the death of a beautiful woman; however, hardly ever it is studied other funeral casuistry of this literary genius (the death of a young man, the afterlife, the demystification of the terrifying vision of death by making use of humour, etc.). The “mourning” process that Poe characters and narrators undergo when faced up to their own deaths or those of their beloved people is focused here (among other death-related experiences), demonstrating that Poe’s tales contain much more than the gothic recreation of the death of a beautiful lady. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2014.04.001 |
