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Doppelgänger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation. In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a p...
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The Doppelganger in the Stories of Edgar Allan Poe term papers and essays ... A seven page paper analyzing the significance of the theme of the Doppelganger, or "double", in Poe's short fiction. Specific stories discussed are "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "Ligeia,"
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A salient feature in many of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories is the concept of a nemesis appearing as a doppelganger. A doppelganger is a double—an apparitional twin or counterpart to another living person. ... The Tell-Tale Heart: Edgar Allan Poe Biography...
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These folkloric fears of the doppelgänger are echoed in many works of fiction (especially those by such 19th-century writers as James Hogg, ETA Hoffman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde and, most particularly, Edgar Allan Poe) in which often the hero is forced to commit suicide to escape the haunting presence of his double.
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Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot. -- Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia...
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Articles from Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism ... “Poe in the Marketplace” (Review by Robert C. McLean of Twentieth Century Interpretations of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Thomas Woodson, ed.; Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Eric W. Carlson, ed.;
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