The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

thataccount•about 2 hours ago

Poe's life had many complications due to poverty and jealousy that made his being a literary genius almost irrelevant. Researching his death produces even more questions than answers, as a strong case could be made that he was made to appear to have died of a morphine overdose in a ditch.

polotics•about 2 hours ago

OK so there is a better angle to look at all this, there really is:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357868645_Edgar_All...

saltcured•about 2 hours ago

Hmm, what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art?

It's one thing for a biographical analysis to look at the person's real life experiences and relationships.

It's another thing entirely when you start conflating the characters in the fiction with the author's own character...

mhurron•about 1 hour ago

> what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art?

There isn't one because you can dislike a person and/or their works for literally any reason you want.

Is there a label for insisting that people put aside their feelings and engage with something because you have deemed their reason for not doing so invalid?

saltcured•37 minutes ago

I said nothing about like or dislike.

I only implied that implied psychological traits of a fictional character are not evidence of the same psychological traits in the author. It's merely evidence that the author is capable of observing or imagining such traits in others.

lazide•40 minutes ago

‘Shoulding’?

lstodd•about 1 hour ago

while I agree that an artist can not be separated from his art (forget Poe, see Vrubel), there is also a label for people that put their faintest feelings above everyone else, and that label is: a despised snowflake.

tecleandor•about 1 hour ago

That's terribly bad. Badly written, barely three pages long, bad references... Half of the list of references are of himself, but almost all of the references in the text are just from one book from 1965.

And lots of affirmations of that text aren't unsustained or don't make sense.

Terribly bad angle.

_superposition_•33 minutes ago

I think you may be missing the point.

This post was an absolute joy to read.

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

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