The Multi-man Genre and Poe's ByronsEdwin Mellen Press Limited, 1987 - 140 pages This work contends that Poe's use of Byron as antagonist was an example of the fragmentation of character - using reflections of Byron as seen by himself, by Poe, by his adulators and defamers - for literary effect. |
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... chamber depends again on the textural layout of Newstead Abbey i.e. on the interlarding of Irving's prose with quotations from Byron . 9 The great lancet window in front of the chapel ad- joins the very wall of the chamber , and the ...
... chamber depends again on the textural layout of Newstead Abbey i.e. on the interlarding of Irving's prose with quotations from Byron . 9 The great lancet window in front of the chapel ad- joins the very wall of the chamber , and the ...
Page 18
... chamber door wide open Unable to sleep Don Juan goes down to walk in the haunted gallery ; but his action in throwing his chamber door wide open is reminis- cent of what Roderick does during the tempest . Hurrying to one of the ...
... chamber door wide open Unable to sleep Don Juan goes down to walk in the haunted gallery ; but his action in throwing his chamber door wide open is reminis- cent of what Roderick does during the tempest . Hurrying to one of the ...
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... chamber to chamber with hurried , unequal , and objectless step . " ( 410 ) When he appeared in the narrator's chamber on the night of Madeline's return , " there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes -- an evidently restrained ...
... chamber to chamber with hurried , unequal , and objectless step . " ( 410 ) When he appeared in the narrator's chamber on the night of Madeline's return , " there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes -- an evidently restrained ...
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