Gothic Visions : E.A. Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher & The Tell-Tale Heart
Ressources
Session 1 : Reading Annabel Lee
Let’s start our sequence by reading the last published poem from Poe, Annabel Lee.
Poe has a multi-faceted literary vision, but he is first and foremost associated with the Gothic genre and the Romantic era.
Session 3 : Reading assignment 1
The first reading assignment will get us closer to the terrible house…
Session 4 : Reading assignment 2
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En classe…
Documents and ressources
- the full text of the short story
- Excerpt 1 (pp. 90-91)
- Excerpt 2 (pp.91-93)
- Excerpt 3 (pp.93-98)
- Excerpt 4 (pp.98-105)
- Excerpt 5 (pp.105-108)
- Excerpt 6 (pp.108-end)
- some movie excerpts
- Poe’s biography
- the wikipedia page for the story
- Reading Test 1 (pp 90 to 93)
- Reading Test 2 (pp 93 to 98)
- Gothic Movies
- Test docs 1 : The Fall of the House of Usher
- Test docs 2 : Gothic excerpts