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T1 The Emotional Effects of the Horror Scenarios in Poe’s and Hawthorne’s Short Stories
A1 González Berzosa, Abril
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Short story
K1 Horror scenario
K1 Desired effect
K1 Claustrophobia
K1 Agoraphobia
K1 Historia corta
K1 Escenario de horror
K1 Efecto deseado
K1 Claustrofobia
K1 Agorafobia
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB In 1842, Poe wrote his first review of Hawthorne’s “Twice-Told Tales”, declaring in his critique that any poet or writer of short stories who desired for their texts to reach the “benefit of totality” had to first and foremost preestablish the desired effect they wanted for their works to convey to the readers. Despite praising Hawthorne as a Romantic writer, Poe declared that his works did not reach the level of those of other Gothic authors due to the lack of the mentioned “desired effect”. The purpose of this final dissertation is to analyse the horror settings in a series of short stories by Poe and by Hawthorne to identify the effect they have. After the study and analysis of the scenarios in each tale, it has been proved that the horror scenarios in the works of both authors have a particular effect on the audience, where Poe’s works create a claustrophobic emotion while Hawthorne’s generate an agoraphobic one.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51455
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51455
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024