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| - | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> "Another study investigating a leitmotif in Poe's creative work is Bernd Gunter's dissertation <i>Das Groteske und seine Gestaltung in den Geschichten | + | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em"> "Another study investigating a leitmotif in Poe's creative work is Bernd Gunter's dissertation <i>Das Groteske und seine Gestaltung in den Geschichten Edgar Allan Poes </i>(Freiburg i. Br., 1974 ). Curiously enough, the subject has hardly been investigated apart from a few doctoral dissertations and comments made in passing in more broadly focused studies (29) nor have scholars successfully ascertained what Poe meant in the preface of <i>Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque </i>(Philadelphia, 1840) when he said, "The epithets 'Grotesque' and 'Arabesque' will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published." Gunter takes issue with the view commonly held since A. H. Quinn that the "arabesques" are meant to be serious whereas the "grotesques" have a burlesque or satirical quality (30). He rightly underlines the inconsistency of scholars who hold this view and simultaneously consider Poe's source for the terms to be Walter Scott's essay on E. T. A. Hoffmann (where the two words are used as synonyms) (31). A further inconsistency, Gunter maintains, arises because Scott does not take "grotesque" as the equivalent of "ironical" or "humorous"; for Scott, "the grotesque . . . has a natural alliance with the horrible" (32). Finally, the grotesque is generally associated with the terrible and the [column 2:] daemonic; it is illogical, Gunter argues, to link the grotesque" only with the "humorous" or "burlesque" in Poe's case and at the same time to associate it with the absurd in reference to writers like [[Faulkner]] or [[Sherwood Anderson]]." |
| - | Edgar Allan Poes </i>(Freiburg i. Br., 1974 ). Curiously enough, the subject has hardly been investigated apart from a few doctoral dissertations and comments made in passing in more broadly focused studies (29) nor have scholars successfully ascertained what Poe meant in the preface of <i>Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque </i>(Philadelphia, 1840) when he said, "The epithets 'Grotesque' and 'Arabesque' will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published." Gunter takes issue with the view commonly held since A. H. Quinn that the "arabesques" are meant to be serious whereas the "grotesques" have a burlesque or satirical quality (30). He rightly underlines the inconsistency of scholars who hold this view and simultaneously consider Poe's source for the terms to be Walter Scott's essay on E. T. A. Hoffmann (where the two words are used as synonyms) (31). A further inconsistency, Gunter maintains, arises because Scott does not take "grotesque" as the equivalent of "ironical" or "humorous"; for Scott, "the grotesque . . . has a natural alliance with the horrible" (32). Finally, the grotesque is generally associated with the terrible and the [column 2:] daemonic; it is illogical, Gunter argues, to link the grotesque" only with the "humorous" or "burlesque" in Poe's case and at the same time to associate it with the absurd in reference to writers like [[Faulkner]] or [[Sherwood Anderson]]." | + | |
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"Another study investigating a leitmotif in Poe's creative work is Bernd Gunter's dissertation Das Groteske und seine Gestaltung in den Geschichten Edgar Allan Poes (Freiburg i. Br., 1974 ). Curiously enough, the subject has hardly been investigated apart from a few doctoral dissertations and comments made in passing in more broadly focused studies (29) nor have scholars successfully ascertained what Poe meant in the preface of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Philadelphia, 1840) when he said, "The epithets 'Grotesque' and 'Arabesque' will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published." Gunter takes issue with the view commonly held since A. H. Quinn that the "arabesques" are meant to be serious whereas the "grotesques" have a burlesque or satirical quality (30). He rightly underlines the inconsistency of scholars who hold this view and simultaneously consider Poe's source for the terms to be Walter Scott's essay on E. T. A. Hoffmann (where the two words are used as synonyms) (31). A further inconsistency, Gunter maintains, arises because Scott does not take "grotesque" as the equivalent of "ironical" or "humorous"; for Scott, "the grotesque . . . has a natural alliance with the horrible" (32). Finally, the grotesque is generally associated with the terrible and the [column 2:] daemonic; it is illogical, Gunter argues, to link the grotesque" only with the "humorous" or "burlesque" in Poe's case and at the same time to associate it with the absurd in reference to writers like Faulkner or Sherwood Anderson."
