A certificate for uneasy souls: Made in Germany

SUNAR H. Ş.

STUDIEN ZUR DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE UND LITERATUR-ALMAN DILI VE EDEBIYATI DERGISI, cilt.1, sa.27, ss.86-96, 2012 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 1 Sayı: 27
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Dergi Adı: STUDIEN ZUR DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE UND LITERATUR-ALMAN DILI VE EDEBIYATI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.86-96
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Germanism, terror, Marx, Freud, the german way of gothic perspective through the 19th century
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In his first story "Metzengerstein" published in 1832, Edgar Allan Poe was criticized with "Germanism" and "gloom". What was actually criticized in this first story deemed to be the end-result of a deep and painful interest in Germanic Middle Age? What caused this direction of 19th century critical view towards Germany and Germanness in this manner? This article looks into the intellectual traces of notion of "terror" through Marx and Freud and questions whether the "terror" is "of Germany" contrary to suggested by Poe himself.