3) Who the hell is Edgar?

Question 1

Who the hell is Edgar?

Answer 1

EDGAR ALLAN POE POE POE POE POE

Question 2

Describe Transcendentalism

Answer 2

Optimistic and harmonious vision, cosmic order, unity, beyond rationality- eternal spiritual principle, Beauty and Truth are one, moral value of the beauty, moral and didactic impact of art

Question 3

Describe Gothic Fiction/ Dark Romanticism

Answer 3

Dark vision, chaos, disintegration, beyond rationality- insanity, death, destruction, Beuty does not coincide with Truth, no moral criteria apply to beauty, art for art’s sake

Question 4

What was Southern Gothic?

Answer 4

genre established in the 20th century in American South, E. A. Poe seen as a predecessor, elements of Gothic fiction and distinctly Southern settings and themes

Question 5

Name some of the Southern Gothic Authors

Answer 5

William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Cormac McCarthy

Question 6

Describe Poe’s fiction

Answer 6

themes of horror, tragedy, the supernatural, the macabre, insanity vs rationality, obsession, irony, unreliable narrators, fascination with the dark labyrinths of human psyche

Question 7

Name some of the Poe’s works

Answer 7

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Purloined Letter, The Raven, Annabel Lee…

Question 8

Which of his work was published in magazines?

Answer 8

Short Stories

Question 9

What was Poe’s first book publication?

Answer 9

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Question 10

Which of his work was the most popular one in his lifetime?

Answer 10

The Gold Bug

Question 11

E.A.Poe is a father of which genre?

Answer 11

Detective Story Genre

Question 12

What is the name of the detective in Poe’s works?

Answer 12

C. Auguste Dupin

Question 13

What is typical for Poe’s detective stories?

Answer 13

Rational analysis, deduction, the story narrated by a friend of the detective, the police mocked as ineffectual

Question 14

C. Auguste Dupin was a prefigure of which famous character?

Answer 14

Sherlock Holmes

Question 15

Name three Poe’s detective stories

Answer 15

Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter

Question 16

Describe Poe’s poems

Answer 16

Formally perfect, mathematically precise rhytmic patterns, regular rythm pattern

Question 17

Which two poems are Poe’s most famous?

Answer 17

The Raven, Annabel Lee

Question 18

During his lifetime, he was acknowledged more as a __________ rather than an author

Answer 18

literary critic

Question 19

Which of his works was published posthumously?

Answer 19

The Poetic Principle