Architects of the Abyss

Dennis Pahl, Architects of the Abyss The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville (Columbia University of Missouri Press, 1989), p. 9. For other readings that regard the house as analogous to the story, see Ib Johansen, The Madness of the Text Deconstruction of Narrative Logic in Usher, Berenice, and Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Poe Studies 22 (June 1989) 1-9 and Hustis, Reading Encrypted but Persistent. ... 

See Maurice Beebe, Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts The Artist as Hero from Goethe to Joyce (New York University Press, 1964), pp. 120-121 Pahl, Architects of the Abyss, pp. 19-21. 

Pahl, Dennis. Architects of the Abyss The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hatvthorne, and Melville. Columbia University of Missouri Press, 1989. 

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