Artistic peculiarities of short stories by E.A. Poe

MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN GULISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY The English and Literature Department Qualification work on speciality English philology on the theme: “Artistic peculiarities of short stories by E.A. Poe”” Numanov Golib’s qualification work on speciality 5220100, Supervisor: Tojiev Kh. Gulistan-2006 Contents Introduction. 1.1 Review of the theme. 1.2 National Beginning in American literature and Edgar Poe as one of its beginners Main Part 2.1 Edgar Poe’s creative life 2.2 Edgar Poe and American short story 2.3 Israfel 2.4 Annabell Lee 2.5 Characteristics of Edgar Poe’s short stories 2.6 Detective stories. “The Cask of Amontillado” 2.7 Fantastic stories. E. Poe’s Heroes ІІІ Conclusion. 3.1 Edgar

Poe’s artistic manner IV. Bibliography. Introduction 1.1 Review of the theme My qualification work is devoted to the creative life and work of great American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the theme of which is “Artistic peculiarities of short stories by Edgar Poe”. This theme is chosen for investigation because of its importance for learning English language. In the process of learning English the learning of the literature of exact country is very important. Alongside with English literature we must know American literature, which developed on the basis of English one. From the history of the English language we know that English penetrated America through British conquering of this land. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the pioneers of national beginnings in American literature, he

made a great contribution to the development of American literature, and he entered the literature as a poet, critic and wonderful short story-teller. To my mind his creative activity is worth of paying attention to and the given theme is actual for investigation. The actuality of the theme is also that because of Edgar Poe’s manner of writing. It is his short stories-defective, fantastic, stories of horror – all of them, which attract the readers by their peculiar effect. Judging by Edgar Poe’s words he prevered “commencing with the consideration of effect”, he wanted to impress the reader, he had a specific skill of constructing his stories, and that’s why he called his short stories “Tales of Grotesques and Arabesque”. 1 My work is aimed to investigate and to

show the characteristic features, the artistic peculiarities of Edgar Poe’s short stories, how the author managed to write the stories of different genres. By analyzing some stories and on their examples, I tried to show their characteristic features. As the object of investigation I have analyzed the following stories: from the series of detective stories I chose the story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, and “The Gold bug”, as horrible stories I took “ The Tell – Tale Heart”, “ The Cask of Amontillado”, and “the Fall of the House of Usher” The scientific novelty of my work is that it provides the rich information about Edgar Poe’s creative life and his works. Analyzing the above mentioned stories I proved once more Edgar Poe’s skill to tell stories

which thrill readers both with fear and humor. 1.2 National Beginning in American literature and Edgar Poe as one of its beginners The work is also of great practical value. It can be used in practice as educational material for further learning not only American literature but our national literature, we can compare Edgar Poe’s artistic manner of writing detective stories with Sherlock Home’s, Aghatha Christy or our Uzbek writer Tahir Malik – well known with his “Shaytanat”. My work consists of three parts and bibliography. The first part contains the general review of the theme and some information about national beginnings in American literature, as Edgar Poe was one of the pioneers in the formation of American literature. The second part includes items concerning