Ligeia
Ligeia

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Leone Editore

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 8892967657

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Un anonimo narratore ci racconta del suo amore perduto Ligeia, una donna alta, dai capelli neri, estremamente intelligente, che credeva che la morte potesse essere sconfitta con la forza di volontà. Inoltre era innamorata in maniera ossessiva del marito, lo idolatrava, ricambiata. Quando lei muore lui è affranto. Qualche tempo dopo decide di andare avanti con la sua vita e si risposa. Strane cose cominciano ad accadere mentre il narratore continua a pensare sempre di più al suo primo amore, Ligeia…

A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"
A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's

Author: Gale, Cengage

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2018-09-13

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1535867787

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Living Dead
The Living Dead

Author: James B. Twitchell

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780822307891

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.

The Fall of the House of Poe
The Fall of the House of Poe

Author: Phillip L. Roderick

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-05-18

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 059583969X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13 year-old cousin and what impact did her tragic death have on his literary creations? Why do the female characters in his short stories endure disturbingly sadistic punishment and torture at the hands of an almost overtly mad husband or acquaintance? Through both a feminist and psychoanalytic analysis, The Fall of the House of Poe attempts to explain Poe's morbid treatment of the female characters in his short stories by examining his own disturbingly tragic experiences with women throughout his short life. Ultimately this book elucidates unequivocally the acute psychological motivations for Poe's profoundly psychoanalytic tales of horror and imagination.

Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Dawn B. Sova

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1438108427

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.

A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe

Author: J. Gerald Kennedy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-01-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0199728135

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The subsequent essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, his relationships to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. The volume also includes a bibliographic essay, a chronology of Poe's life, a bibliography, illustrations, and an index.

The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe
The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: J. Gerald Kennedy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13: 0190641878

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Depicting Desire
Depicting Desire

Author: Rachael Langford

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9783039103218

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Papers presented at a conference on "Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century: European Literatures, Histories, and Arts" held at Cardiff University in July 2001.