Презентация на тему Edgar Allan Poe

7, 1849) is an American writer, poet, essayist, literary

critic and editor, representative of American Romanticism. The creator of the form of the modern detective and the genre of psychological prose.

intellect was of no less interest than his psychology.

Most clearly it is traced in the so-called detective or, as the author himself determined, logical stories. He referred to them "Murder in the street Morgue", "The Secret of Marie Roger" and "The Stolen Letter"

the detective is not that he wrote the first

detective story in the history of literature, but that he developed and applied the principles of the future genre, introduced his basic elements, created a form and structure. From his logical stories in the modern genre passed a stable pair of characters: the hero - the narrator, to which the third element was added a hero with ordinary abilities, devoid of the originality of the mind.