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Acta literaria 2011
Transformaciones y nuevas figuras de lo nervioso en la construcción de los relatos de Edgar Allan PoeDOI: 10.4067/S0717-68482011000200006 Keywords: poe, short story, nervousness, madness. Abstract: the problem of nervousness has a significant role to play in the construction of several of edgar allan poe's short stories and shows the influence on his work of the gradual transformation of this concept in the field of psychopathology in europe and north aamerica during the nineteenth century. aan analysis of these references raises questions not only about the existence of a transcendental source of inspiration underlying the creative act, but also about the traditional biographical interpretations that have defined his pathological personality traits, or the fatality of his life, as paradigmatic keys to understanding the function of anguish, madness, and death in his short stories.
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