Murdering the past: Influence and immortality in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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10/01/2009

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Table of Contents Murdering the past: Influence and immortality in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Poe's writing process
  3. Wide selection of Poe's works
  4. The narrator's external actions
  5. The spectrum of morality
  6. The duplication and mimicry
  7. The problems of conformity and influence
  8. Dupin's revelation
  9. The harsh memoriam
  10. Conclusion
  11. Works cited

Abstract

On first reading, the majority of edgar allan poe's short stories are concerned with death in a variety of different forms. Whether poe is describing murder, the fear of being killed, characters previously deceased who return to life, or those who still live being buried prematurely, the subject of death is prevalent throughout poe's works. Because of his subject matter, poe has been placed in the horror genre. However, as poe describes in his "Philosophy of Composition," "some amount of suggestiveness-some under-current, however indefinite, of meaning (poe 463)" is instilled in each of his literary works, an undercurrent that makes him more of a metafictional writer than anything else. Many of poe's stories comment subtly on the nature of literature itself, and lurking behind all his uncanny character doubling is a running commentary on another doubling of sorts: the writer's place in the literary tradition, the influence of previous writers, versus modernity and originality. In poe's detective stories "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders at the Rue Morgue," Auguste Dupin is presented as a doppelganger, a man who adopts the form of his adversary in order to defeat him.

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