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Edgar Allan Poe's Journey and Abyss Motifs: Order vs. Disorder

The key to an understanding of what Poe attempted to accomplish with his art lies in his depictions of order and disorder in the universe. Poe's explorations of order and disorder revolve around journey and abyss motifs exemplified in his imaginative approaches toward nature, conscience, art, intuition, and apocalypse. These imaginative approaches serve to unify Poe's- work as a whole and emphasize his importance as a questing artist who not only sought to define the shape of reality in terms of stability and chaos but also sought to formulate a final metaphysical ordering of chaos and finitude.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663479
Date05 1900
CreatorsRaffety, Duane N.
ContributorsKesterson, David B., 1938-, Bowman, Larry, Dickey, Imogene Bentley, 1908-
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 102 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Raffety, Duane N., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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