Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison
Description:
Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," as early as 1839, reveals an uneasiness about the space of the house. Most literary scholars accept that this anxiety exists and causes some tension, since it seems antithetical to another dominant motif, that of the power of place and the home as sanctuary. My critical persona, like Poe's narrator in "The House of Usher," looks into a dark, silent tarn and shudders to see in it not only the reflection of the House of Usher, but perhaps the whole of what …
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Date:
December 2000
Creator:
Berger, Aimee E.