own literary style. Edgar Allan Poe was one writer that emerged during this time known as the “flowering of New England” (Babusci 169). Responsible for the emergence of the short story and the detective fiction genre, Poe is considered to be one of the most influential and widely read American writers of his
Hypothesis 1.3 Methodology 2. Theoretical Background 2.1 Style and stylistics 2.2 Stylometry 2.3 Authors 2.3.1 E.A. Poe 2.3.2 H.P. Lovecraft 2.3.3 Poe’s influence on Lovecraft 3. Method 3.1 How was the data collected 3.2 How was the data analysed 4. Results and analysis 4.1 Analysis 4.2 Results 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendices 1. INTRODUCTION Horror stories have always been popular throughout our history. Perhaps it is the morbidity or just perhaps that we humans like to
Doyle’s detective stories as well as Dame Agatha Christie’s whodunits are placed among/considered the classic works of the genre//are the classical representatives of the genre. While the former creates Sherlock Holmes at the time when detective fiction just appeared
The Imp of the Perverse is a short film written and directed by filmmaker Benjamin Cook based on a short story written in 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe. The Imp of the Perverse refers to the desire to do what is wrong simply due to the fact that it is the wrong thing to do. Both the short story and the film use themes based around post-modernist theory and writings by Sigmund Freud. The film deals with the complexities of the human psyche and the motivations behind the actions of an individual. Using the