scholarly journals Despejando incógnitas sobre "El Clavo" (1853) de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833-1891): relato policiaco o novela romántica

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Cantero García
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Auguste Dupin

La presente colaboración pretende arrojar luz sobre una polémica que hasta la fecha mantiene abierta la crítica literaria: ¿es El clavo (1853), de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón un relato policiaco que sigue las huellas de Edgar Allan Poe, como inventor del género, o más bien es una novela romántica al uso? A través de un completo análisis contrastivo entre el texto alarconiano y Los crímenes de la calle Morgue (1841), de Poe, llegamos a la conclusión de que Alarcón no sigue las pautas marcadas por Poe, pues el protagonista del texto del guadijeño no recurre al "discurso de la racionalidad" ni al método deductivo para hallar la solución al crimen relatado.Nuestro estudio deja claro que el detective C. Auguste Dupin mantiene en vilo al lector con el suspense y la intriga que emanan de sus actuaciones, mientras que el juez Zarco antepone los asuntos sentimentales a la investigación detectivesca.

scholarly journals A GROTESQUERIE PARISIENSE: TRAÇOS DO INSÓLITO NA NARRATIVA POLICIAL DE EDGAR ALLAN POE

Abusões ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Santos Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
De Se ◽  
Auguste Dupin

Edgar Allan Poe foi o criador de uma obra cuja grandeza artística é proporcional à heterogeneidade que a compõe. Fora do mérito de se tratar de um dos inventores da narrativa detetivesca, o autor legou à posteridade uma série de contos, poemas, ensaios e correspondências, tangendo desde os temas clássicos da literatura fantástica até uma produção humorística e tantos exemplos de ficção à moda especulativa de caráter filosófico. Por tanta variedade, não foram poucas as tentativas de segmentar sua obra conforme seus temas. Em meio a esse esforço de classificação, tornou-se habitual que se considerasse que os contos de raciocínio, grupo que reuniria os três relatos do detetive C. Auguste Dupin e alguns outros afins, estaria destacado dos demais. A justificativa passa, em alguma medida, pela defesa do contraste provocado pela aura de esclarecimento que permeia o conto policial, reflexo de um mundo desejoso de se organizar pelo conhecimento e pelos desenvolvimentos tecnológicos, contra os impulsos nervosos herdados pela influência gótica, influindo especialmente sobre seus contos de horror. Entretanto, a narrativa que perpassa os acontecimentos que circundam o assassinato brutal de mãe e filha em uma Paris em plena ebulição ressoa em outros contos do autor, seja pela criação de atmosfera, seja pelas impressões comunicadas pelos respectivos narradores-testemunhas. O objetivo deste artigo será o de refletir a respeito das semelhanças entre a narrativa detetivesca de Edgar Allan Poe, a partir do conto “Os assassinatos na rua Morgue”, e algumas de suas narrativas fantásticas.

Dupin’s Descendants in Print and on Screen

2018 ◽  
pp. 658-675
Author(s):  
John Gruesser
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
Nonprint Media

Edgar Allan Poe envisions detection as competition, staging contests between characters, constructing plots so as to outwit readers, and in effect competing with himself in the two sequels to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” By striving to outdo what he has already done, Poe weaves authorial competition into the fabric of detection, inspiring a diverse range of writers to bring innovations to the form. He would likely be amazed to find that the descendants of Auguste Dupin have come in an array of shapes, sizes, nationalities, genders, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, subject positions, and ethnic and racial backgrounds. Moreover, even his vivid imagination could not have conceived of detection’s impact on various print and nonprint media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including comic books, graphic novels, animation, computer games, television, and film.

scholarly journals The types of the chronotope in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by Edgar Poe

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Psychological Factor ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
The Right ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the time and space peculiarities in the short story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» by the American writer of the 19th century Edgar Allan Poe. The aim of the article is a analysis of artistic chronotope as a special way of influencing the reader and distinguishing the features of time and space in the analyzed work. E. Poe was the initiator of the «detective short story», the genre features of which are the description of the deduction of the character, the analysis of the event, generalized logical, mathematically accurate reasoning. The image of detective Auguste Dupin is the main in the short story. There are the real and historical chronotope in this detective short story. The author repeatedly focuses on spatial topos that form a unique authorial style. The character, through the perspective of the narrator's vision, is portrayed in detail, with the psychological factor closer to the finale intensifying, which allows to distinguish the features of personal chronotope. Real historical chronotope uses fictional topos or objects that represent a certain space that carry a symbolic load (the non-existent streets of Paris, the library, the room, etc.). The author skillfully combines real and fictional events to create a unique detective story. All topos are interconnected and complementary, leading to a deep understanding of artistic reality. Real, mystical, historical and social chronotopes are associated with deep psychology, which makes it possible to recreate events and find the right solution to solve the crime. The perspectives of the narrator and the short story's characters on the same event extend the boundaries of the chronotope, giving it additional features. This interconnection of chronotopes in the short story not only shapes the complex artistic world of the nineteenth century, but also makes it possible to refer the analyzed work to the literature of romanticism.

scholarly journals D’une étonnante dextérité dans l’art de l’enquête

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Bertrand Gervais
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Auguste Dupin

Quelle est la particularité de ces enquêteurs qui envahissent l’écran de télévision aux heures de grande écoute? Ils multiplient les raisonnements à l’emporte-pièce, armés de dispositifs techniques ultrasophistiqués qui leur servent d’arguments d’autorité. Je me propose dans ce bref article d’examiner les fondements sémiotiques des raisonnements de ces enquêteurs. En me servant d’un cas d’espèce, en l’occurrence le travail de Dexter Morgan, dans la série américaine Dexter, j’examinerai les stratégies mises de l’avant dans ces enquêtes policières à caractère scientifique. Elles sont fondées sur ce que C. S. Peirce a nommé l’abduction. Comme l’avaient bien compris Edgar Allan Poe et Conan Doyle, en créant Auguste Dupin et Sherlock Holmes, l’abduction en acte permet le spectacle d’un esprit qui, lorsqu’en pleine possession de ses moyens, est capable d’inférer rapidement et efficacement les bonnes hypothèses, celles permettant d’attraper le coupable. Ces raisonnements sont évidemment truqués; mais, comme pour tout tour de magie, l’art de feindre a non seulement ses vertus esthétiques, mais surtout ses propres leçons à donner sur les modalités de perception et d’interprétation du monde.

scholarly journals From Hamlet to Holmes: literary detective tradition

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1087-1099
Author(s):  
SeyedehZahra Nozen ◽  
Hamlet Isaxanli ◽  
Bahman Amani
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Auguste Dupin ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Agatha Christie

Exposed to the mystery of his father’s suspicious death, young Hamlet followed the riddle of solving it in the longest tragedy of Shakespeare. By suspension and the lengthy nature of detective works, Shakespeare seems to have initiated a new subgenre in drama which may have later on been converted into an independent subgenre in the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie through their imaginative characters, Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes and the pair of Hercules Poirot with Miss Marple respectively. Fyodor Dostoevsky may have also spread the net of Hamletian subtext in his Crime and Punishment. Plotting a perfect crime by the murderers and the public approval of the plan, on one hand, and the inconvincible mind of the hero which ultimately undo the seemingly unsolvable puzzle, on the other, construct the very core of all aforementioned works of Shakespeare, Poe, and Doyle. The unanticipated and unpredicted findings of either Holmes or Hamlet defeat the expectations of the audience and bring the runaway justice back to her groom. 

Edgar Allan Poe Matches Wits With One of the First Identified Serial Killers!

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Iaccino ◽  
Jennifer Dondero
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Serial Killers
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