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Fear of Nothingness: An Existential Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Horror and Terror

Fear of Nothingness: An Existential Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Horror and Terror

McDermott, James E.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN13: 9798591007072
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2021
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Not only is Nothingness a major theme of Poe, it is precisely what makes Poe's works so terrifying and frightening because whereas Poe might have been able to make a romantic leap in the belief of the divinity of the individual, his protagonists are not. Their terror of the Void overwhelms them because they have no hope, no belief, and no way to give meaning to their lives or to their deaths. As gothic novel expert, Devendra P. Varma explains, Poe raised terror to tragic heights by adding psychology to the old gothic raw material and capturing the airy, gossamer filaments of sensation by touching upon obscure feelings of psychic dread. To investigate those obscure feelings of psychic dread in the light of existential thinking through an interpretation of fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of horror and terror arranged in a thematic order is the design of this book.

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