Bipolar disorder, childhood bereavement, and the return of the dead in Edgar Allan Poe’s Works
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2015-01
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University of Zululand
Abstract
'It [the wall] fell bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the
spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had
seduced me into murder ...’
From ‘The Black Cat’, written c. age 35 (Poe 1975:230).
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Peer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan 2015, p. 10 - 18
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bipolar disorder, childhood bereavement, Edgar Allan Poe
Citation
Meadows, B.L., 2015. Bipolar disorder, childhood bereavement, and the return of the dead in Edgar Allan Poe’s Works. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(1), pp.10-18.