Date of Award
9-2-1987
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
William L. Frank, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Craig C. Challender, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Massie C. Stinson, Ph.D.
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the role of narrator in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. The thesis finds that Poe exerts a lot of effort fashioning the narrator. He discredits his reliability to discourage a face-value credibility. He puts him in a dream state to give him access to his subconscious mind. He makes himself and other characters representative of the functioning of the inner mind. He creates deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deception so that the reader will take the right turns along the way. In each story there is an inner conflict raging within the composite individual.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Frances M., "The Role of Narrator in Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe" (1987). Theses & Honors Papers. 325.
https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/etd/325
