Search for dissertations about: "Edgar Allan Poe"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Edgar Allan Poe.
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1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849
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
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2. Soundscapes in nineteenth-century Gothic short stories
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