polling place on an Election Day, died a few days later in hospital when he was only 40. · His works reflect the double aspect of his personality: the abandonment of the self-destructive romantic artist and the self-control of the conscious and conscientious craftsman, the passivity of the dreamer indifferent to all that exists outside his dream world and the restless activity of a keen mind always on the alert. · Poe himself classified his tales as "grotesque", "arabesque", "ratiocinative", to indicate variations in his intentions. The ,,arabesque" are those in which horror or other emotion in violent suspense gives the tale its power ("The Fall of the House of Usher") In the ,,grotesque" tales the effect is achieved by a grim and ironic humour ("The Masque of Red Death") In the ,,ratiocinative" the effect comes from the use of rational analysis in reconstructing a series of events ("Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Gold Bug")
Poe's stories became popular because of Climactic arrangement of the events and the poetic style, appropriate for their mood. Poe's style: vocabulary is not natural, extremely formal. He prefers the literary, bookish layer of vocabulary. Unnatural way. Names are outlandish, fantastic. Repetition he repeats certain rhythms, motifs. He classified his stories into 3 categories: 1.Grotesque include a kind of grim, dark humour 2.Arabesque mostly horrors and strong emotions, fear. 3.Ratiocinative rational, logical analysis in reconstructing the order of events. Each category represented a different intention. He developed mastered, perfected stories. The short story of psychological effect. Tales of the grotesque and arabesque contains some of his most famous stories "The Fall of the House of Usher". Typical of a gothic story gloomy, dark, murky. The feeling of intolerable loneliness. One such story is "The Man of the Crowd" the secret of a man who
Kokkuleppelisuse pooltargument: nimede olemasolu näitab, et sõnad on kokkuleppelised, sest ühenimelisi asju on olemasja nimesid saab vahetada. Nimeteooria teemal on sõna võtnud Platon („Kratylos“) ja Aristoteles. Keskajal võttis sõna Hobbes (1655), kes käsitles nime kui loogikamõistet ning võrdles sõnu ja nimesid tähistena. Gotfried W. Leibniz avaldas 1765 teoses keeleteadusliku aluse nimeteooriale. J. S. Mill käsitles nimesid 1843 „A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive“: nimedel pole tähendust. Konnoteerima – antakse edasi sisu, nii et kuulaja oskab väljendi põhjal teha järeldusi asja omaduste kohta Denoteerima – tähistamine ehk sildistamine, mis ei anna edasi väljendi sisu, vaid toob seda teistest esile, ei too iseloomustavaid tunnuseid. Milli argument: pärisnimed ei konnoteeri, sest päriselus pole neil tähendust, vaid need denoteerivad ja näitavad asja. Nimi näitab asja
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