... fact that many theorists (as well as fiction authors) made statements about the character of the initiation-story only as a kind of by-product while analyzing specific examples of the genre. There are some attempts to build a concise theory, though, on which the following chapter will focus. 2.1 Origins of the term Initiation as an anthropologic term means "the ... 190), which is only found in a "very small proportion of works called initiation stories" (Marcus 190). 2.2 Theoretic approaches to the initiation-theme in literature Here, some attempts to define and categorize stories of ini...

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... . The whole thing happening in the story will be presented as a dream analysis of the narrator. In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. This study wants to conclude how Poe's hard life in childhood ... Fall of the House of Usher'' (1834) has all of the Gothic ingredients. Moreover, Poe is particularly important to the ongoing influence of the Gothic on contemporary literature, moving the genre from an external to an interna...

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