Chronotope and Imagination in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Abstract

The focus of this research is in the area of literature studies. Such a study is important in order to shed light on the use of Time, Space and Imagination in literature, especially in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The research approach adopted in this dissertation is a literary analytical approach based on close reading of the text. The findings from this research provide evidence that the use of Time within books is totally different from real life as if the reader falls in a new timing ruled by the author through the papers of the book in which Space goes beyond just providing a location for the story to reflect and describe the characters. These two elements working together could invite the reader to move from his real world into a new fictional one created by the author who enters into the reader's mind and directs his imagination, and helps him use it through the very detailed description of events and characters.