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An “Ambrosial Breath of Faery”: Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe’s “Poetic Principle”
Representative of the paradoxical position that Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) usually occupies in Poe film criticism is the Aurum’s anonymous critic’s assertion that, “[t]hough often dazzling ...