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LIGEIA : Eternal love beyond death

LIGEIA : Eternal love beyond death

Andra Picincu

Business Communication and Research Center

Abstract

Poe developed a new definition of art that will have a profound influence on literary modernism he turned a sketch into a true art form , invented the detective novel , extended the possibilities of science fiction literature and founded a new genre of fiction with psychological , emotional and symbolic dimensions

By the obsessive exploration of extreme states in stories like Ligeia ' and William Wilson , Poe has opened a new

territory in the psychological literature untouched until then by the literature dominated by a narrow realism and the concern for the ordinary experience

LIGEIA : Eternal love beyond death

Poe has been called the evil genius of American literature , a cursed poet , whose legend , developed by his own misrepresentation , by the defamation of his enemies and sad episodes of his life full of disappointments , shadowed his appreciation as one of the brightest and most original of America . In his native country , the literary legacy of Poe was denied and it still is constantly underestimated

Poe 's reputation as a great poet was reflected by his extraordinary impact on French symbolism : Baudelaire named him : the most forceful writer of the time Mallarme was saying about Poe that he was his great master Valery noted that Poe is the only perfect author . He was never wrong ' Poe is one of the few literary personalities who were distinguished in poetry , fiction and criticism and whose literary contribution...