...is absolute. Poe's rule serves to emphasize the one most important principle of short story writing. "In the whole composition there should be no word...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. As by such means with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind...

...without interruption. During the hour of perusal, the soul of the reader is at the writer's control....ln the whole composition, there should be no word written...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design" (italics mine). 18 Borges is a true child of Poe; he himself made the same conclusions and prescriptions...

...Cit. p. 17. (34) "If his very initial sentence tend not to the out-bringing of this efect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design", Graham's magazine, abrilmayo 1842. (35) "Tal triple capacidad para sentir con intensidad, atraer la...

...of reality). which is a sudden disclosure of important matters in life.': Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "in the whole composition there should be no word...indirect. is not to the one pre,established design." Henry James speaks of a "shock of recognition" as a characteristic feature of the short story which...

...understood in light of two terms from Poetics: anagnorisis and peripeteia. Poe believed that in a true tale "there should be no word written, of which the tendency,...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design." 6 If this maxim concerns plot, the unity of a text then relies on a "turning point," characterized...

...understood in light of two terms from Poetics: anagnorisis and peripeteia. Poe believed that in a true tale "there should be no word written, of which the tendency,...direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."6 If this maxim concerns plot, the unity of a text then relies on a "turning point," characterized...

...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should '' Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," in Literary Criticism of Kdgar Allan Poe, ed....

...formulation, if the writer's "very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one preestablished design." Only works that aim at adapting each element to the other and subordinating them all to a single effect...

...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design.9 In the central document in the history of the form, this is the central passage. Nor can it...

...the unexpressed fancies of mankind.")12 Poe left the tale writer no room for being offhand or sloppy: "In the whole composition there should be no word...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."" With its emphasis on "the one pre-established design," Poe's theory of the art of the tale is profoundly...