The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort
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Resumo: | Six Feet Under (2000-2005), by Allan Ball, is clearly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, from the opening credits (a reference to the poem ‘The Raven’) to the presence of ghosts and the gothic atmosphere displayed by most objects in the television series, especially the house. Both houses, the Fisher Funeral Home and the house of Usher in the story ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1840), are symbolic spaces of death and, consequently, liminal spaces. If the Usher’s house, like its owner, is an isolated space representing the decadence and fall of the human being; the Fisher’s house, naturally a place of human finitude, seems to represent the opposite: albeit being a funeral house it offers some comfort. In this way, my aim is to analyse Poe’s story and the episode ‘Familia’, (1:5, 2000) from Six Feet Under in order to not only present Poe’s influence in the series, but also to compare both houses so as to show this architecture of (dis)comfort. |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfortPoe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Crítica e interpretaçãoSix Feet UnderHouseArchitecture(Dis)comfortSix Feet Under (2000-2005), by Allan Ball, is clearly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, from the opening credits (a reference to the poem ‘The Raven’) to the presence of ghosts and the gothic atmosphere displayed by most objects in the television series, especially the house. Both houses, the Fisher Funeral Home and the house of Usher in the story ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1840), are symbolic spaces of death and, consequently, liminal spaces. If the Usher’s house, like its owner, is an isolated space representing the decadence and fall of the human being; the Fisher’s house, naturally a place of human finitude, seems to represent the opposite: albeit being a funeral house it offers some comfort. In this way, my aim is to analyse Poe’s story and the episode ‘Familia’, (1:5, 2000) from Six Feet Under in order to not only present Poe’s influence in the series, but also to compare both houses so as to show this architecture of (dis)comfort.Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaCentro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de LisboaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaDuarte, José2012-03-14T16:21:40Z20102010-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/5584engAnglo-Saxonica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos, nº10873-0628info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T15:47:08Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/5584Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:30:47.619694Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort Duarte, José Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Crítica e interpretação Six Feet Under House Architecture (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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The House of Usher and The House of Fisher: Towards an Architecture of (Dis)comfort |
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Duarte, José |
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Duarte, José |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Duarte, José |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Crítica e interpretação Six Feet Under House Architecture (Dis)comfort |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Crítica e interpretação Six Feet Under House Architecture (Dis)comfort |
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Six Feet Under (2000-2005), by Allan Ball, is clearly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, from the opening credits (a reference to the poem ‘The Raven’) to the presence of ghosts and the gothic atmosphere displayed by most objects in the television series, especially the house. Both houses, the Fisher Funeral Home and the house of Usher in the story ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1840), are symbolic spaces of death and, consequently, liminal spaces. If the Usher’s house, like its owner, is an isolated space representing the decadence and fall of the human being; the Fisher’s house, naturally a place of human finitude, seems to represent the opposite: albeit being a funeral house it offers some comfort. In this way, my aim is to analyse Poe’s story and the episode ‘Familia’, (1:5, 2000) from Six Feet Under in order to not only present Poe’s influence in the series, but also to compare both houses so as to show this architecture of (dis)comfort. |
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