Short Story Criticism

The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan | Further Reading

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Criticism

Blackmur, R. P. "Afterword to 'The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales.'" In Outsider at the Heart of Things: Essays by R. P. Blackmur, edited by James T. Jones, pp. 223-30. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,1989.

Comments on the extraordinary appeal of Poe's stories, with reference to "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Booth, Wayne C. "Manipulating Mood." In The Rhetoric of Fiction, pp. 200-05. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Analyzes the rhetorical development of mood using "The Fall of the House of Usher" as an example.

Caws, Mary Ann. "Tarn and Tunnel: Falling into Text." In Reading Frames in Modern Fiction, pp. 109-14. Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Offers a deconstructionist reading of frame devices in 'The Fall of the House of Usher."

Dayan, Joan. "The Dream of the Body." In Fables of Mind: An Inquiry...

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