For his ability to penetrate the obscure cells of the unconscious; for his capacity to stare at death with manifold eyes; for the sense of solitude and anguish which leaps out from his pages and which was an irresistible magnet for Charles Baudelaire, Paul Valery, Walt Whitman, H. P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Gesualdo Bufalino, Paul Auster, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, and many others Edgar Allan Poe is the author to celebrate. In particular, the following essay can be defined as the pioneer of science fiction, as the inventor, or better, the discoverer of the genre. In particular, many short-stories will be analysed through the perspective of spatiality.
Science Fiction Spaces in some of Poe’s Short Stories
Mancini Carmela
2018-01-01
Abstract
For his ability to penetrate the obscure cells of the unconscious; for his capacity to stare at death with manifold eyes; for the sense of solitude and anguish which leaps out from his pages and which was an irresistible magnet for Charles Baudelaire, Paul Valery, Walt Whitman, H. P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Gesualdo Bufalino, Paul Auster, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, and many others Edgar Allan Poe is the author to celebrate. In particular, the following essay can be defined as the pioneer of science fiction, as the inventor, or better, the discoverer of the genre. In particular, many short-stories will be analysed through the perspective of spatiality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
