A Hopeless Endeavor: The Quest for Knowledge in “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, language: English, abstract: The short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most popular and most interpreted texts. Up to today, literary scholars argue about the proper meaning of the story. The text has been ...