Michael Kratky

Art and the Idea of Death-in-life in E. A. Poe's "The Oval Portrait" Michael Kratky

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,00, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Amerikanistik), course: The Short Stories of E. A. Poe, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: This seminar paper deals with the central idea of E. A. Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait", which resides due to this analysis in the confusing relationship between art, life and death. The paper focuses on the ambiguity of the creativce process and also depicts the effect on both the narrator and the reader. , abstract: This paper deals with the central idea of E. A. Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait", which resides in the confusing relationship between art, life and death. The paper focuses on the ambiguity of the creative process of art and also depicts the effect on both the narrator and the reader.