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"The interpreter's dream-text," as one critic called Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has prompted critical approaches almost as varied as the experiences it chronicles. This is the first book to deal exclusively with Pym, Poe's longest fictional work and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kopley, Richard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
Temas:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849. > Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Poe, Edgar Allan)
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Whaling in literature.
Récits de mer américains > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Sea stories, American
Whaling in literature
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Poe)
English fiction
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richard Kopley
  • Part I. Literary origins
  • "Mutiny and atrocious butchery" : the Globe Mutiny as a source for Pym / Susan F. Beegel
  • Poe's "Manual of 'seamanship'" / Joan Tyler Mead
  • Pym's polar episode : conclusion or beginning? / J. Lasley Dameron
  • Novels, tales, and problems of form in The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Bruce I. Weiner
  • Poe's reading of myth : the white vision of Arthur Gordon Pym / Carol Peirce and Alexander G. Rose, III.
  • Pym, the Dighton Rock, and the matter of Vinland / Joseph J. Moldenhauer
  • Poe's life reflected through the sources of Pym / Burton R. Pollin
  • Part II. Sociohistorical contexts
  • Mourning in Poe's Pym / Grace Farrell
  • Poe, antebellum slavery, and modern criticism / John Carlos Rowe
  • Part III. Prefigurings
  • "Postmodern" or post-Auschwitz : the case of Poe / David H. Hirsch
  • Part IV. Figuration
  • Consumption, exchange, and the literary marketplace : from the Folio Club tales to Pym / Alexander Hammond
  • Pym pourri : decomposing the textual body / J. Gerald Kennedy
  • The quincunical network in Poe's Pym / John T. Irwin
  • The arabesque design of Arthur Gordon Pym / G.R. Thompson
  • Part V.A writer's view
  • "Still farther South" : some notes on Poe's Pym / John Barth
  • Part VI. A bibliographer's view
  • Tracing shadows : Pym criticism, 1980-1990 / David Ketterer.

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