“THE CASE OF VALDEMAR”: MELANCHOLY AS AESTHETIC RESOURCE IN EDGAR ALLAN POE'S WRITING
The American author Edgar Allan Poe offers readers a taciturn universe, whose texts recreate situations and environments that permeate the horror, the obscure and the grotesque, these being some of the essential literary marks of his works. Understanding the need to recognize intertextuality in the scientific sphere in the areas of Literature and Psychology, in this article we discuss the short story “O Caso do Valdemar”, present in the book Contos de terror, de Ministro e de Morte (1975). In order to outline aspects of the author's writing, we investigated melancholy under the aegis of studies of the mind, especially the theories of Sigmund Freud (2012), Moacyr Scliar (2003) and Ricardo Araújo (2002), recognizing it as a powerful narrative and aesthetic resource (BRADY; HAAPALA, 2020) to portray the degradation of human beings.
“THE CASE OF VALDEMAR”: MELANCHOLY AS AESTHETIC RESOURCE IN EDGAR ALLAN POE'S WRITING
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929262230088
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Palavras-chave: Tale; Narrative; Letters; Psychology.
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Keywords: Tale; Narrative; Letters; Psychology.
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Abstract:
The American author Edgar Allan Poe offers readers a taciturn universe, whose texts recreate situations and environments that permeate the horror, the obscure and the grotesque, these being some of the essential literary marks of his works. Understanding the need to recognize intertextuality in the scientific sphere in the areas of Literature and Psychology, in this article we discuss the short story “O Caso do Valdemar”, present in the book Contos de terror, de Ministro e de Morte (1975). In order to outline aspects of the author's writing, we investigated melancholy under the aegis of studies of the mind, especially the theories of Sigmund Freud (2012), Moacyr Scliar (2003) and Ricardo Araújo (2002), recognizing it as a powerful narrative and aesthetic resource (BRADY; HAAPALA, 2020) to portray the degradation of human beings.
- Rafael Francisco Neves de Souza
- Taylor Felipe Salamon de Araújo
- Evelin Gomes da Silva
