Polysemy of the concept of «disease» as the basic concept of the infernal representation of reality in Edgar Poe’s novella «The fall of the house of Usher»

The article discusses the features of the implementation of the concept of "disease" in E.Poe's novella "The Fall of the House of Usher" as a key concept of the organization of a Gothic work. The boundaries and their blurring are considered when comparing the realities of everyday and unreal spaces. The topos of "madness" in the novel becomes a two-dimensional space in which the interaction of the infernal and real worlds takes place, which are cyclical in chronotopic terms.

concept, topos, infernality, duality, psychologism.