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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is arguably one of the most dominant tales haunting American Gothic literature. This iconic story's influence lies in the inspired tensions between its simplicity and its inexplicable mingling of supernatural and psychological elements. Poe, the "House of Usher," and the American Gothic discusses how Poe's tale continues to serve as a model for exploring the deepest and most primitive corners of the human mind and heart. This study uses the Usher-inspired matrix of outsiders, uncanny houses, and psychic collapse and to reveal Poe's continued relevance to the genre through the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King.
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The Spectral Metaphor Realizing Absence in Beloved Absenting Presence in Beloved Spectral and Metaphorical Domains in Beloved Spectral Excess and Metaphorical Supplementation in Beloved Spectral and Ideological Figuration in The Eighteenth Brumaire Spectral History in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ideological Mirages in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ideology, Magical Realism and Metaphor in One Hundred Years of Solitude Conclusion: The Unfinished Business of the Reader
