A Critical Essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher (1

The twenty first century designer Alexandra Iftodi Zamfir (1986- ) argues that architecture and settings ar more important in chivalric fiction than in any other type of literature. (Zamfir. 2011 15). The nature of architectural space performs a significant affair within the narrative structure of Gothic fiction as it creates and builds layers of imagery that signify the horrific and gloomy a construction full of atmosphere and suspense. It was the Gothic writer Horace Walpole (1717-1797) who first illustrated in his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) an example symbolic to the nature and power of architectural space explored through the nature from his stimulate house in Strawberry Hill which was the most complete neo-Gothic structure of the time. His mansion, as the author admits, stands at the base ofarchitectural designshapes, decors, landscapes, were all nether one form or another, elements of Gothic construction. (Zamfir. 2011 18). This critical essay will ex plore and analyse the nature of Gothic architecture deployed as a fomite of Gothic construction within the narrative structure of the American author Edgar Allan Poes (1809-1849) macabre and fictional prose The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). (Poe. 1987 1). I shall gift and argue how the artistic effects deployed in the narrative structure create an atmosphere of tension and suspense, through the exploration and investigation of Gothic architecture, demonstrating a most reading and analysis from key passages of the text applying psychoanalytical examples from the nineteenth century theorist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). (Chiriac 1998-2011). The Fall of the House of Usher was written by the American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, it first feat... ...gn_of_Space_in_Gothic_Architecture. Accessed 11th May 2012Giordano, R. (2005-2011) Poestories.com An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. On-line Available from http//www.poestories.com/. Accessed 24th folk 2011G unn, A.G. (1997-2002) Cyclopaedia of Ghost Story Writers. On-line Available from http//www.jb.man.ac.uk/agg/ghosts/poeea. Accessed 24th September 2011Hallqvist, C. (2001) The Poe Decoder. On-line Available from http//www.poedecoder.com/. Accessed 24th September 2011Montagna, J.A. (2006) The Industrial Revolution. On-line Available from http//www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html. Accessed 11th May 2012Pridmore, J. (1998-2011) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). On-line Available from http//www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Poe.htm. Accessed 24th September 2011