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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... doors in remote parts of the Abbey , would send hollow reverberations and echoes along the cor- ridor and up the spiral staircase . Once , in fact , I was roused by a strange moaning sound at the very door of my chamber . I threw it ...
... doors in remote parts of the Abbey , would send hollow reverberations and echoes along the cor- ridor and up the spiral staircase . Once , in fact , I was roused by a strange moaning sound at the very door of my chamber . I threw it ...
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... door of Friar Tuck's hermitage is clearly not that of the hermit's dwelling in the " Mad Trist , " but since the items in that tale do not belong one to the other , there is no reason why it could not be the door of another building ...
... door of Friar Tuck's hermitage is clearly not that of the hermit's dwelling in the " Mad Trist , " but since the items in that tale do not belong one to the other , there is no reason why it could not be the door of another building ...
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... door of the deserted and barricaded Annesley Hall could have been the in- citement to the day - dream in which Poe invented the hermit hut incident in the " Mad Trist , " is that he knew Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1817 ) . One of the ...
... door of the deserted and barricaded Annesley Hall could have been the in- citement to the day - dream in which Poe invented the hermit hut incident in the " Mad Trist , " is that he knew Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1817 ) . One of the ...
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