Fear of the in-between: Interstitial space in Edgar Allen Poe's ;;William Wilson;;

[摘要] ;;You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead---dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist---and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.;; -William Wilson in Edgar Allen Poe's ;;William Wilson;;This quote marks a moment of palpable horror as the reader discovers that an apparent murder is actually a suicide. ;;William Wilson;; is a story about boundaries: the distinction between the self and the other, between William Wilson and his doppelganger, but also in the way these boundaries break down. In many of Poe's stories, such as ;;The Tell-Tale Heart,;; we are enthralled by the building of suspense until the repressed becomes revealed.The vehicle of study will be a re-presentation/re-construction of ;;William Wilson;; the text/character. This architectonic double suggests multiple readings of the interstitial spaces, events, sounds, characters, and objects featured in ;;William Wilson.;; The product of this investigation cannot be divorced from a process of production which explores the concept of doubling---such as printing, xeroxing, photography, casting---and what the ramifications of these methods have for the design of space.

[发布机构] Rice University

[效力级别] literature