Parallel Deaths: Logic and Structure in the House of Poe

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  • Manuel José Botero Camacho

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Throughout this article a thorough reading of the short-story titled "The Fall of The House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe is proposed, with the purpose of exposing it as a fully intentional construction. The sort of intentionality here mentioned focuses on the structural framework, the narrative: its literary design. This analysis draws the reader‘s attention specifically to the layout, frame and scenery of the tale in order to reveal parallel structures expressed in a symmetry between ground and figure. The work addresses as well the author‘s intrusion within the text, the problem entailed by a referential language and the purposeful transformations resulting from textual appropriation.

RESUMEN: A través de este artículo se propone una lectura minuciosa del relato corto "The Fall of the House of Usher" de Edgar Allan Poe, con el objeto de exponerlo como una construcción completamente intencional. La intencionalidad aquí mencionada se centra en el marco estructural, en la narrativa: su diseño literario. Este análisis dirige la atención del lector específicamente al diseño, estructura y entorno del cuento con el propósito de revelar estructuras paralelas: una simetría entre la forma y el fondo; considerando, así mismo, la intrusión del autor en el texto, el problema que supone un lenguaje referencial, así como las transformaciones intencionadas resultantes de la apropiación textual.

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Published

2018-06-26

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Botero Camacho, M. J. “Parallel Deaths: Logic and Structure in the House of Poe”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 21, June 2018, https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/5379.

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