Klausner, Samuel LewisAntomarini, BrunellaMagnani, Clarissa2024-10-172024-10-172018Magnani, Clarissa. "A Descent into the Unknown Edgar Allan Poe’s Dappled Duality". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2018.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/521Thesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Philosophy)--John Cabot University, Spring 2018.The existentialist inquiry which designed this thesis begins with the ambiguous nature of Edgar Allan Poe’s works. It begins with a primal inquisition on knowledge, that is to say, the source for grasping the ultimate truth, locating its place within the philosophical discourse, to then prove its inaccessibility in Poe’s literary sphere. This thesis is aimed to show how the author plays with the unknown and the reader’s expectations of knowability, through Poe’s take on science and the ambiguous theme of the double.vii, 64 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849Thesis