O autossacrifício da forma: “Berenice”, de Edgar Allan Poe

Authors

  • William Augusto Silva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.99116

Keywords:

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice, short-story, form, self-sacrifice

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "Berenice". We observe in the trajectory of its protagonist the realization of the dialectic in which the individual with the intent to preserve itself, ends up performing his own sacrifice. The analysis then continues relating this aspect of the story to features of form and attributing the predominance of abstract elements and not narrative to the sacrifice of literary material involved in text composition in order to get the unity of impression intended by the author. At the end we outlined the possibility of criticizing the way Poe conceives the form of the short story

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Author Biography

  • William Augusto Silva, Universidade de São Paulo
    Mestrando em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Published

2015-12-15

Issue

Section

LAVA

How to Cite

Silva, W. A. (2015). O autossacrifício da forma: “Berenice”, de Edgar Allan Poe. Magma, 22(12), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2015.99116