The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
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1987
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Thesis/Dissertation
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Edgar Allan Poe: Sigmund Freud; psychoanalytic criticism
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Literature
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English
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103-423-049
(Last edited on
2006/01/09 08:26:21 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
This doctoral thesis (completed 1987, awarded 1988) is a psychoanalytic reading of Poe's short stories (and certain other texts) which argues that his writings undermine and subvert the ideological notion of the unitary subject, interrogating the dividing-lines between self and other, 'norma' and 'abnormal' and 'respectable' and 'criminal'. Identity emerges as an inherently unstable construct, permanently liable to splitting and fissure. The image of the crack in the facade of the House of Usher is here central, as a metonym for Poe's universe as a whole.
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