Edgar Allen Poe’s influence on Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Their personalities, literary styles and concepts

Hausarbeit , 2007 , 21 Seiten , Note: 1,7

Amerikanistik - Literatur

The main purpose of this paper is to trace Edgar Allen Poe’s influence on H. P. Lovecraft, to prove coincidences or expose differences, whether it is of style, topic, literary concepts or biographical respectively personal similarities.
As Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s life and work are less known than it is the case with Edgar Allen Poe, the paper is divided into two main parts, one of them exclusively dedicated to Lovecraft, the other one trying to draw the above mentioned comparison.

Contents

1. Preface

2. Howard Phillips Lovecraft – An Introduction
2.1 A Biographical Sketch
2.1.1 Early Years
2.1.2 Later Years
2.1.3 Teutonic Aryan – In HPL’s Behalf
2.2 Calling forth Cthulhu – Lovecraft’s Mythology
2.2.1 The Necronomicon
2.2.2 The Old Ones

3. H.P. Lovecraft and E.A. Poe
3.1 Literary Concepts
3.2 Literary Style
3.3 The Outsider
3.4 Biographical and Personal Similarities

4. Synopsis

5. Bibliography

• Hochschule: Universität Konstanz
• Veranstaltung: American Literature and Culture II
• Note: 1,7
• Autor: Sebastian Langner (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Seiten: 21
• Katalognummer: V281411
• ISBN (eBook): 9783656759522
• ISBN (Buch): 9783656759515
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: Lovecraft, Poe, Cthulhu, Necronomicon, raven, outsider