MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION

OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

GULISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY

The English and Literature Department

Qualification work on speciality

English philology on the theme:

“Artistic peculiarities of short stories by E.A. Poe””

Numanov Golib’s qualification work

on speciality 5220100,

Supervisor: Tojiev Kh.

Gulistan-2006

Contents

I.  Introduction.

1.1 Review of the theme.

1.2 National Beginning in American literature and Edgar Poe as one of its beginners

II.  Main Part

2.1 Edgar Poe’s creative life

2.2 Edgar Poe and American short story

2.3 Israfel

2.4 Annabell Lee

2.5 Characteristics of Edgar Poe’s short stories

2.6 Detective stories. “The Cask of Amontillado”

2.7 Fantastic stories. E. Poe’s Heroes

ІІІ Conclusion.

3.1 Edgar Poe’s artistic manner

IV. Bibliography.

Introduction

 

1.1 Review of the theme

My qualification work is devoted to the creative life and work of great American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the theme of which is “Artistic peculiarities of short stories by Edgar Poe”. This theme is chosen for investigation because of its importance for learning English language. In the process of learning English the learning of the literature of exact country is very important. Alongside with English literature we must know American literature, which developed on the basis of English one. From the history of the English language we know that English penetrated America through British conquering of this land. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the pioneers of national beginnings in American literature, he made a great contribution to the development of American literature, and he entered the literature as a poet, critic and wonderful short story-teller. To my mind his creative activity is worth of paying attention to and the given theme is actual for investigation.

The actuality of the theme is also that because of Edgar Poe’s manner of writing. It is his short stories-defective, fantastic, stories of horror – all of them, which attract the readers by their peculiar effect. Judging by Edgar Poe’s words he prevered “commencing with the consideration of effect”, he wanted to impress the reader, he had a specific skill of constructing his stories, and that’s why he called his short stories “Tales of Grotesques and Arabesque”. [1]

My work is aimed to investigate and to show the characteristic features, the artistic peculiarities of Edgar Poe’s short stories, how the author managed to write the stories of different genres. By analyzing some stories and on their examples, I tried to show their characteristic features. As the object of investigation I have analyzed the following stories: from the series of detective stories I chose the story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, and “The Gold bug”, as horrible stories I took “ The Tell – Tale Heart”, “ The Cask of Amontillado”, and “the Fall of the House of Usher” The scientific novelty of my work is that it provides the rich information about Edgar Poe’s creative life and his works. Analyzing the above mentioned stories I proved once more Edgar Poe’s skill to tell stories which thrill readers both with fear and humor.

1.2 National Beginning in American literature and Edgar Poe as one of its beginners

The work is also of great practical value. It can be used in practice as educational material for further learning not only American literature but our national literature, we can compare Edgar Poe’s artistic manner of writing detective stories with Sherlock Home’s, Aghatha Christy or our Uzbek writer Tahir Malik – well known with his “Shaytanat”.

My work consists of three parts and bibliography. The first part contains the general review of the theme and some information about national beginnings in American literature, as Edgar Poe was one of the pioneers in the formation of American literature.

The second part includes items concerning Edgar Poe’s creative life, his poetry and the development of American short story.

The item about characteristics of Edgar Poe’s “Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque”, where I made the analysis of his stories of horror, detective and fantastic stories.

In conclusion I summed up the work paying attention to Edgar Poe’s artistic manner, and the importance of his creative activity for the world literature.

The use of Edgar Poe’s short stories in original helped me with revealing their characteristic features. Besides I have used Hervi Allen’s recollections about Edgar Poe’s, Published in the book “Splendid people’s life”, M. 1984 issue 14 and Professor F. Cowles Strickland’s recollections about Edgar Poe. I also found interesting remarks about Edgar Poe’s activity in the article by M. Urinov. In Highlight of American literature I found the rich information about National beginnings and short stories in American literature.

Many writers paid attention to Edgar Poe’s works, such as Nikolukin in his book “Edgar Poe, H. W. Krutch. “Edgar Allan Poe”. “A study in genius New York”. 1926. Edgar Allan Poe, His writing and influences, New York 1974.

The use of the material from Internet helped me to enrich my work with the information concerning Edgar Poe’s creative activity and characteristics of his works.

Main part

2.1 Edgar Poe’s creative life

Edgar Allan Poe is certainly one of the best known and most popular of American writers. His stories are read by children, probed with the tools of psychoanalysis by critics, and transformed into films. ............