Search "The Fall of the House of Usher"
|
|
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe | |
|
About 1,003 pages (300,832 words) in 44 products |
|
  
| Name: |
Edgar Allan Poe | | Birth Date: |
January 19, 1809 | | Death Date: |
October 7, 1849 | | Place of Birth: |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | | Place of Death: |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, writer |
summary from source:
 Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
1494 words, approx. 5 pages
 Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism... summary from source:
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
36304 words, approx. 121 pages
 With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with... summary from source:
 Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
36222 words, approx. 120.7 pages
From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
 The Fall of the House of Usher Information
4,082 words, approx. 14 pages
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in September 1839. It was slightly revised before being included in a collection of his fiction entitled Tales...
summary from source:
 Denver Rocky Mountain News Englewood Ushers Fall Of House Of Founder
09/14/2002: 1,064 words, approx. 4 pages 00-00-0000 ENGLEWOOD USHERS FALL OF HOUSE OF FOUNDER Time for an update on the apparently homeless father of Englewood, being No. 50 of 50, and the ripples from cuts at the Denver Art Museum. THOMAS SKERRITT FIRST: The City of Englewood shocked... summary from source:
The Independent - London The Arts: Theatre: The Fall of the House of Usher The Oval House London
02/10/2000: 347 words, approx. 1 pages GRAEAE, BRITAIN'S leading company for the disabled, has a thought- provoking line in outrageousness. A few years ago, with Nabil Shaban whizzing round in a wheelchair, they put on a version of Ben Jonson's Volpone which, because it had a physically impaired actor in...
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
 Critical Essay by Richard Wilbur
8,894 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture to the Library of Congress in 1959, Wilbur discusses Poe's allegorical representation of the poetic soul in conflict with the external world, especially as it is demonstrated in "The Fall of the House of Usher. "
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Cynthia S. Jordan
7,503 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Jordan focuses on Poe's treatment of crimes against women, comparing his writing to that of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Jordan proposes that Poe's women-centered tales allow him to explore issues that go beyond the imaginative limits of male-authored fiction, and that “The Fall of the House of Usher” marks the beginning of this style of storytelling for Poe.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Louise J. Kaplan
7,291 words, approx. 24 pages
Kaplan is an American psychoanalyst. In the following essay, she presents a psychoanalytic interpretation of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Featured Essays
summary from source:
 Essay Grade: 88%Pathway to Destruction
2,567 words, approx. 9 pages
In his notorious short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe attempts to teach the lesson that sinfulness leads to one's own downfall as guilt gets the best of him. Poe does this by using various literary devices such as repetition, suspense, irony, rhetorical questioning, and tone. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%Split Personalities in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
1,026 words, approx. 3 pages
Many of Edgar Allan Poe's works have a character with a split personality. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," it's Roderick who experiences a split personality with his twin sister, who is probably a figment of Roderick's disordered imagination.
|
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe | |
|
About 1,003 pages (300,832 words) in 44 products |
|
|
