The imp of the perverse
The imp of the perverse
Author(s): Tania PeptanSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: The imp of the perverse; self-aggression; deviance; perverse; control; adjustment
Summary/Abstract: We will explore a dimension of (self-)aggression as regulatory mechanism. This examination of Edgar Allan Poe’s case attempts to corroborate pathography with the American author’s implicit and explicit aesthetics, a study oriented by the notion of ‘perverse’ somehow seeming to reconcile such apparently opposing series as repetition and difference, normality and deviance, natural and unnatural.
Journal: Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 93-99
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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