Author(s)

Chen Ziyin ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518000, China

Corresponding Author

Chen Ziyin

ABSTRACT

The Fall of the House of Usher, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is an outstanding example of 19th-century American Gothic fiction. In this novel, the creation of binary opposition and its significance can be observed. My aim is to decode three sets of duality items based on the textual information about this story.

KEYWORDS

Binary Opposition; Edgar Allan Poe; American Literature; The Fall Of The House Of Usher

CITE THIS PAPER

Chen Ziyin, Decoding Binary Oppositions in the Fall of the House of Usher. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 16-19. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070603.

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