Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror
PhD Thesis - Jaqueline Pierazzo
The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a complete study of the effect of terror in Edgar Allan Poe's works through the development of a detailed digital cartography of the author’s terror fiction. To achieve this goal, five maps will be created and divided into at least three main interrelated categories: spaces, themes, and characters. The main goal is to discern patterns that link spaces, themes, and characters, effectively achieving the effect of terror. In order to provide a complete study of the effect of terror, the corpus will englobe the totality of the Poesque oeuvre.