A Critical Essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1

The cardinal root century author Alexandra Iftodi Zamfir (1986- ) argues that architecture and settings are more central in chivalric fiction than in any other fount of literature. (Zamfir. 2011 15). The record of architectural space performs a significant role in spite of appearance the communicative structure of Gothic fiction as it creates and builds layers of imagery that stand for the horrific and gloomy a construction full of atmosphere and suspense. It was the Gothic writer Horace Walpole (1717-1797) who first illustrated in his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) an modelling symbolic to the nature and power of architectural space explored through and through the nature from his own house in Strawberry Hill which was the most fatten up neo-Gothic structure of the time. His mansion, as the author admits, stands at the base ofarchitectural goalshapes, decors, landscapes, were all under one form or another, elements of Gothic construction. (Zamfir. 2011 18). This vituperative essay will explore and analyse the nature of Gothic architecture deployed as a vehicle of Gothic construction within the narrative structure of the American author Edgar Allan Poes (1809-1849) macabre and fictional prose The lead of the House of Usher (1839). (Poe. 1987 1). I shall present and argue how the artistic personal effects deployed in the narrative structure create an atmosphere of tension and suspense, through the exploration and investigation of Gothic architecture, demonstrating a close reading and synopsis from key passages of the text applying psychoanalytical examples from the nineteenth century theorist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). (Chiriac 1998-2011). The crepuscule of the House of Usher was written by the American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, it first feat... ...gn_of_Space_in_Gothic_Architecture. Accessed 11th May 2012Giordano, R. (2005-2011) Poestories.com An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. On-line Available from http//www.poestories.com/. Accessed twenty-fourth kinfolk 2011Gunn, A.G. (1997-2002) Cyclopaedia of Ghost Story Writers. On-line Available from http//www.jb.man.ac.uk/agg/ghosts/poeea. Accessed 24th September 2011Hallqvist, C. (2001) The Poe Decoder. On-line Available from http//www.poedecoder.com/. Accessed 24th September 2011Montagna, J.A. (2006) The Industrial Revolution. On-line Available from http//www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html. Accessed 11th May 2012Pridmore, J. (1998-2011) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). On-line Available from http//www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Poe.htm. Accessed 24th September 2011