Ligeia
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"Ligeia" is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of death, obsession, and the supernatural through a narrator’s haunting memories of his mysterious, intellectually formidable first wife.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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horror fiction work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | struggle against death ⓘ |
| centralRelationship | marriage between narrator and Ligeia ⓘ |
| character | Rowena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | considered one of Poe’s most accomplished early tales ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
fusion of love, death, and the uncanny
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power of the human will over death ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The American Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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horror fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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radio adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
haunted memory
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opium use ⓘ return from the dead ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| influenced | later Gothic horror writers ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Gothic literature tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | short story length ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySubgenre | American Gothic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ligeia (character)
NERFINISHED
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unnamed male narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ambiguous supernatural ending
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emphasis on intellect and willpower of the title character ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1838 ⓘ |
| partOf | Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of the grotesque and arabesque (loosely associated) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revisedByAuthor | Edgar Allan Poe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | an old English abbey ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
death
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mourning ⓘ obsession ⓘ resurrection ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Tomb of Ligeia