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Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories
2017. urn:nbn:hr:142:744380
Vrbat, Ružica
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Vrbat, R. (2017). Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

Vrbat, Ružica. "Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

Vrbat, Ružica. "Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

Vrbat, R. (2017). 'Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 15 September 2023, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

Vrbat R. Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2017 [cited 2023 September 15] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

R. Vrbat, "Death of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2017. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:744380

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TitleDeath of Women in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Stories
Title (croatian)Smrt ženskih likova u odabranim pričama Edgara Allana Poea
AuthorRužica Vrbat
MentorLjubica Matek (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2017-07-10, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper deals with the topic of female characters in three of Edgar Allan Poe’s selected stories: “Ligeia”, “Morella” and “Berenice”. The three characters on which the paper focuses are Ligeia, Morella and Berenice, and it attempts to show that Poe did not write about dying women because he was obsessively influenced by his own experiences, but because he tried to portray a new, "Modern" woman, one whose manifestation of power could best be achieved through death. The paper brings into connection the author’s crucial life experiences, and gender roles in the nineteenth century, with the analyses of the three selected stories, in order to show how they are connected. The women in the stories all have different lives and roles in the story, but are bound together with the idea of death and life after death, as they all die an unexpected death, then come back to life at the end of each story. The paper points to the conclusion that their deaths and rebirths signify the power they have over the men in their lives: Ligeia proves dominion over the narrator’s sanity as well as love interest, Morella proves her intellectual dominion over the narrator once again even after she dies, and Berenice proves dominion over the narrator’s mind. In all of the stories the protagonist’s triumph over death represents the "Modern" woman’s victory over the old, Victorian woman.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:744380
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Philosophy (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije (sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije)
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