>Among Poe’s bad writing habits is his attempt to provide authority for the tale he is about to tell by citing factual precedents for it. He begins “The Premature Burial,” for example, by citing three or four newspaper stories about people buried prematurely - just to establish that this sort of thing can happen. He would give his tale then the authority of borrowed fact. He argues from scientific authority in “Descent into the Maelstrom” that the Nordic waters are known to be susceptible to just such terrifying phenomena as he will describe. Poe likes to argue his way into his stories. It’s the fiction writer’s admission after all that he is not a factualist, that he stands outside the culture of empirical truth. And as such it is a fatally defensive move.
Poe is both big brain and small brain depending on how you look at him. Like Yeats being a total retard as a kid yet somehow still being brilliant. Idk why people don’t like Poe here though, he’s basically American Borges.
>filename Nice try, negro. But seriously, I feel sorry for folk who feel the need to post things like this on the internet---it's like they lack so much as a solid sense of self that they create an illusion of having one by latching onto whatever the fuck else (in this case, an author) that catches a bit of their fancy (or of other's) and then fill the cracks with this sort of fetishization of related merchandise/paraphernalia. What's worse about this pic is that it goes further into shamelessness by appealing to footfaggotry.
Liam Morris
I like his poetry a lot but never got that into his short stories.
Daniel Sullivan
Purloined Letter and The Tell-Tale Heart are top-tier if you ever want to give his stories a try
Jordan Murphy
I read Tell-tale heart and it's undeniably really good, I guess I just don't care that much about horror stories. Which is weird because i love horror movies.
>What do you like about his stories in particular?
The framing. The strange touches. The intellectual structure.
Austin Russell
How unread do you have to be to not realize that this is not a crutch, but an intentional literary device. The point is not to make the stories more believable, or to aid in the supsension of disbelief, but rather the opposite--to associate the unbelievable with the ordinary and mundane, to tell these stories in a natural way, as your neighbor might tell it to you. Do you think that the three or four newspaper stories in The Premature Burial were real articles that Poe was referencing, or that he actually thought Nordic waters had such phenomena? Poe enters into these stories in the same way Dostoevsky enters into his. Where Dostoevsky tells a story like it is spoken over a rural fencepost with a rustic detachment from fact that speaks nothing but sincerity, Poe writes in the manner of modern correspondence, imitating the false confidence that the new men of science brought to an obvious but unacknowledged ignorance about the true state of things.
Nathan Howard
op didn't imply any of that but thanks for playing faggot just stating your point without putting words in someone's mouth wouldn't be very four chan now would it
Charles Lopez
classic example of why critics are shit and should be largely ignored.
Mason Scott
Wasn't he fucking writing pot boilers deliberately trying to grab people's attention?
Luis Russell
How can (you) not understand the abstract and impersonal you that refers to whoever OP is quoting and whoever might agree with them?
Gavin Clark
I did understand that and my post still holds FAGGOT
Camden Moore
You need a break. I mean that personally.
Jaxon Baker
B U N D L E O F S T I C K S
Alexander Jackson
You know precisely why you are unhappy, and it is entirely within your control to change. You could be happy, if only you would acknowledge you've been an arrogant fool.
Jace Sanders
no u
Landon Turner
This semester could finally be the one that is different. This semester, instead of being on Yea Forums, you could go to the library and actually study your own interests. This could be the year you read assignments ahead of time and thoughtfully engage with the professors during their office hours. Maybe it is this year that you study diligently during the day so that you have time to join the co-ed softball league and meet someone you will care about the rest of your life. You don't have to be here. You don't have to do this.
Nolan Morales
nice projection blog faggot
Bentley Roberts
>Wasn't he fucking writing pot boilers deliberately trying to grab people's attention?
I don't know. Would you say this is "grabbing"?
>Once the neighbors break into the fourth story apartment (where the screams came from), they find the rooms totally destroyed. The body of resident Mademoiselle L'Espanaye is stuffed up the chimney with bruises on her neck. Also found are two sacks of cash with four thousand francs, and the corpse of the murdered girl's mother is lying on the rear stone courtyard. The bones on Madame L'Espanaye's right side are shattered and her neck has been cut so badly that her head falls off when the neighbors try to lift her body. They also discover that both the room's windows are sealed from the inside, the doors are locked, and there's no way for anyone to have escaped without being seen by the neighbors coming up the stairs.
Benjamin Myers
Thank you. It's 70mm
Andrew Edwards
lol I'm sure it is LOL
Bentley Ross
>not a factualist >culture of empirical truth
congrats on finding the dumbest fucking critic possible. let us know what else you find in the dumpster
Bentley Murphy
>How unread do you have to be to not realize that this is not a crutch, but an intentional literary device.
This, Poe is based.
Dominic Allen
I always thought Poe was based. Calling him a defensive writer feels like a brainlet take desu
Samuel Gray
I want to find who took this pic and wring their throat why is everything about taking pictures of what you want people to think you enjoy instead of enjoying things
Oliver Bennett
*in addition to :)
Ian Morris
>I want to find who took this pic and wring their throat
What if she's a cutie?
Matthew Green
not the people I know :)
I've had friends borrow a book of mine, post it to Instagram, then return it and when I try and talk to them about it it's clear they haven't read it. three separate times. I'm not even an autist that was quizzing them I mean normal discussion on a book we both read. they were all prototypical college kids.
why are you writing about why everything is taking pictures of what they want people to think they enjoy instead of just enjoying things?
Isaiah Wright
because I want to find a gf that does something she likes that she can talk about. when I go on dates it's always her asking questions about my interests, but when I ask about hers they're seemingly non-existent besides maybe where she works. probably partly to do with where I live, a party college town. either way, it's a source of dissatisfaction and frustration in my life and Yea Forums is where I write my diary entries for people I don't know to reply to, because I feel rude venting to people in real life especially when it's about the type of people they probably are.
Jason Martin
>Idk why people don’t like Poe here though They cannot ratiocinate.
Oliver James
>I want to find a gf that does something she likes that she can talk about.
Like trying to find a moon that emits its own light...
