Edgar Allan Poe and the Theory of the Short Story

Authors

  • Saša Simović University of Montenegro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7251/fil1409251s

Abstract

The concept of effect elaborated in his poetry, Edgar Allan Poe applied to the short story. In his well-known review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842), Poe claims that apart from a poem the demands of a genius are best fulfi lled in the short story requiring from a half hour to one or two hours to be read in order to obtain the unity of effect and make it functional. According to Poe, in a well written story, each element has to fit into a previously conceived plan to contribute to the overall effect of the whole. This paper deals with fundamental postulates of Poe’s short story theory.

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Published

2014-06-30

Issue

No. 9 (2014)

Section

Literature

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