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| who ran smear campaign about Poe after his death |
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John Allen - a successful Richmond merchant
(Poe's dad abandoned family and mom died at 2) |
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| Where did Poe first go to college? & What bad habits were made there? |
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| WVU in 1826; gambling debts and drinking |
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| Where did he go to Second for college? What happened? |
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West POint; 1830
Was expelled which caused division with John Allen |
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By 1831, how many books did Poe publish?
What was his first? |
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| 3; Tamberline and Other Poems |
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| Who did he marry and when? |
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| Virginia, his 14 year old cousin; 1836 |
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| Describe last 12 years of his life |
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| journalist, editor, creative writer; lived in poverty |
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| When and why did Poe's wife die? |
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| 1846, long illness battle |
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| What 2 different aliases did he go by? |
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| Edgar A. Perry; Henri Le Rennet |
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| 2 years of long illness; drank heavily; possibly rabies |
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| October 3, 1849 (Election Day); near polling place |
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| national fame for it; powerful attacking critic |
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| wanted to produce the greatest possible horrific effects |
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created genre at 32
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Sir Arthur Coran Doyla |
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drops hidden hints
tries to appear objective
- solve by mind
- disturbed by not being able to solve it
the climax is when narrator explains the crime |
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started career spoofing gothic
wrote of terror, not Germany
transformed tales of terror into psychological stories
- explored mysterious areas of the mind |
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| Elements of Gothic in Poe |
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grim setting - landscape symbolism; unusual buildings or extremes of nature or art; most in Europe or "no place in particular"
hidden evil - incest, parricide
Obsession with death - ghosts, blood, body parts
Maniacal Laughter
Discovered manuscript
Deformity - gross outer and inner |
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Poe uses vocab to create setting
- more for rhetoric than setting
vocab for atmosphere |
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HW: Conflict between intellect and heart
Poe: conflict between two sides of the intellect |
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