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Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories
2009. urn:nbn:hr:142:760416
Jukić, Anita
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Jukić, A. (2009). Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic 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:142:760416

Jukić, Anita. "Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:760416

Jukić, Anita. "Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:760416

Jukić, A. (2009). 'Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 14 December 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:760416

Jukić A. Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2009 [cited 2024 December 14] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:760416

A. Jukić, "Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2009. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:760416

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TitleEdgar Allan Poe's Gothic Stories
AuthorAnita Jukić
MentorSanja Runtić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2009-09-28, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Poe’s stories “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” exemplify the most important features of the gothic genre. In both stories the setting is on a desolate place, in a gothic building, and we know from the beginning of the stories that something horrible will happen. In “Ligeia” it is a gloomy abbey “in one of the wildest and least frequented portions of fair England” (Poe 56) and in “The Fall of the House of Usher” it is a melancholic mansion in a “dreary tract of country” (Poe 76). Both stories are about death which is shown in a disturbing way, but also about illness and people’s fears. Ligeia and Roderick look like dead people or ghosts and suffer from unusual illnesses. The characters in the stories are also aware of strange sounds, but first they think that it is just imagination and later they are scared. In both cases the dead return to life, but we do not know if they have actually been dead. The narrator in Ligeia is an opium addict, so that can also be interpreted as only his imagination. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Roderick says that they have put her living in the tomb. All in all, these elements make the stories mysterious and they are elements of gothic stories.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:760416
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti)
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