“A queda da casa de Usher”: O Fantástico e suas fronteiras

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. For the analysis of the Fantastic and its borders along with its variations: the Uncanny and Marvelous. The Fantastic construction of the analysis relies primarily on the theories of Tzvetan Todorov and Filipe Furtado, who favour the issue of speech ambiguity rather than the mere sense of terror that this aspect would evoke. This short story is part of the Literary School Romanticism and falls under the strand of the Gothic style that mixes apparent narrative elements of this type of literature: suspense, horror, dark and decadent ambiences, complex and schizophrenic characters.