“Vast Forms That Move Fantastically”: Poe, Freud, and the Uncanny

El poder de la imaginación en las creaciones góticas: literatura y cine

“…Algunos críticos (Tatar, 1981;Madden, 1993;Royle, 2003;Reuber, 2004;Schöpp, 2006;Windsor, 2019) sostienen que Poe es capaz de intensificar el impacto emocional del sentimiento de lo siniestro en sus obras hasta límites insospechados. En estos términos, Freud afirma sobre lo siniestro en la vida real y en la literatura: "…many things that would be uncanny if they occurred in real life are not uncanny in literature, and that in literature there are many opportunities to achieve uncanny effects that are absent in real life" (citado en Chieffalo, 2011, p. 15).…”

The Origin of Uncanny; Revelation of Lurking Horror in The Man of the Crowd with the help of Fairclough’s 3D Model

“…Poe traps his reader in an uncanny printed network, rather than expressing the creator of the mystery or the narrator and his characters right on the front, he uses various riddles for the reader to solve and leave the reader with the desire of finding more. The uncanny might be considered as a real part of those impacts which are mostly discernible in Poe's works (Schopp, 2006). The effects of the uncanny are not only represented in his works but also in his life as Poe's life owes a lot stress on the mysterious and the sinister.…”