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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... considered to be the artistic virtue , fragmentation a major defect . Centering a fiction on one man obsessed with one idea , possessing one failure , or caught in one trap , has always been a formula for success ; the man of many parts ...
... considered to be the artistic virtue , fragmentation a major defect . Centering a fiction on one man obsessed with one idea , possessing one failure , or caught in one trap , has always been a formula for success ; the man of many parts ...
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... considered most fundamental , the opposition between Mind and Matter . Soul and Mind were terms he found inextricably intertwined , as is demonstrated by a comment in " Detached Thoughts " ( No 98 ) : " The deuce is in it , if after ...
... considered most fundamental , the opposition between Mind and Matter . Soul and Mind were terms he found inextricably intertwined , as is demonstrated by a comment in " Detached Thoughts " ( No 98 ) : " The deuce is in it , if after ...
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... considered as narratives , close parallels ; the one could incite the other . At all events this epitaph serves as a succinct example of the retrospective remorseful perspective often used by Byron when composing his autobiographic ...
... considered as narratives , close parallels ; the one could incite the other . At all events this epitaph serves as a succinct example of the retrospective remorseful perspective often used by Byron when composing his autobiographic ...
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