Search for dissertations about: "Edgar Allan Poe"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Edgar Allan Poe.

  2. 1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

    Author : Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. READ MORE

  4. 2. Soundscapes in nineteenth-century Gothic short stories

    Author : Elena Glotova; Virginia Langum; Marlene Johansson Falck; Sylvia Mieszkowski; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; soundscape; the Gothic; short story; auscultator; acousmatic sound; liminality; the uncanny; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : In the eerie world of Gothic literature, sound represents a source of fear, anxiety, and discomfort, and it mostly affects its listeners through the invisible character of the experience. Sound is integral to nineteenth-century Gothic short stories with their panoply of liminal and polyphonic oppositions, as well as a claustrophobic feel of spaces, fearful listeners, and the return of the repressed. READ MORE