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This is the first 1,000 characters of 3423 words (13.69 pages) in the essay titled Poes Short Story and Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story.As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from man s attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed that moralists derive their beliefs, and thus, the resultant behavioral patterns, from a priori knowledge. In Eureka, we find that Poe shunned such artifices of mind, systems which, he professed, have no basis in reality. Yet Poe employed in his writing the diction of the moral tome, which causes confusion for readers immersed in this tradition. Daniel Hoffman reiterates Allan Tate s position that, aside from his atavistic employment of moral terminology, Poe writes as though Christianity had never been invented. (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe s most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral presents Poe s way of staying execution (Poe 487) for his transgressions against the didactics. The story s main character is Tob... |
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Keywords: edgar allan poe, atavistic, eschewed, bet, supernatural, diction, didactics, posterity, american short story, daniel hoffman, discernible, toby dammit, temperance pledge, satirical spoof, conventional morality, gothic mode, creative period, romantic imagination, female babies, bronx cheer