1. Psychoanalytic Reading of Poe's Oval Portrait
Keywords: Freudian Psychoanalysis, Complex, Vampirism in Art, Eros and Thanatos, Women, Death, Immortality 1. ... While many critics suggest that Poe is a post-Gothic writer, he nevertheless used many Gothic conventions in his own work, including medieval settings, supernatural occurrences, terror, and architectural ruins. Certainly, ' 'The Fall of the House of Usher'' (1834) has all of the Gothic ingredients. ... Hyde in the nineteenth century demonstrates both the transformation and the influence of the Gothic. ... In the beginning of the story the narrator compares the...
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