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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... fact , she soon did not . For to finish briefly with her history , after living many months near Newstead she was killed in an accident with a cart in the streets of Nottingham . On the death of her brother , a ship's captain who had ...
... fact , she soon did not . For to finish briefly with her history , after living many months near Newstead she was killed in an accident with a cart in the streets of Nottingham . On the death of her brother , a ship's captain who had ...
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... fact , the physical body of Roderick Usher , and its dim interior is , in fact , Roderick Usher's vision- 1,55 ary mind . Madeline is neglected by him . In contrast , William Bysshe Stein divides the psyche of the House into two ...
... fact , the physical body of Roderick Usher , and its dim interior is , in fact , Roderick Usher's vision- 1,55 ary mind . Madeline is neglected by him . In contrast , William Bysshe Stein divides the psyche of the House into two ...
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... fact , when one thinks how close he had come to the end . Yet an explanation for his decision to set the play aside must lie in what he had already written . Looking back over the development of the play , therefore , one sees that the ...
... fact , when one thinks how close he had come to the end . Yet an explanation for his decision to set the play aside must lie in what he had already written . Looking back over the development of the play , therefore , one sees that the ...
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