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Format: 1 online resource (304 p.)

ISBN: 9780822397601

Content: "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 in many ways his most ambitious. Here leading Poe scholars provide solutions and interpretations for many challenging enigmas in this mysterious novel.The product of a decade of research and planning, Poe's "Pym" offers a factual basis for some of the most fantastic elements in the novel and uncovers surprising connections between Poe's text and exploration literature, nautical lore, Arthurian narrative, nineteenth-century journalism, Moby Dick, and other writings. Representing a rich cross-section of current modes of literary study—from source study to psychoanalytic criticism to new historicism—these sixteen essays probe issues such as literary influence, the limits of language, racism, the holocaust, prolonged mourning, and the structure of the human mind. Poe's "Pym" will be an invaluable resource for students of both contemporary criticism and nineteenth-century American culture.Contributors. John Barth, Susan F. Beegel, J. Lasley Dameron, Grace Farrell, Alexander Hammond, David H. Hirsch, John T. Irwin, J. Gerald Kennedy, David Ketterer, Joan Tyler Mead, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Carol Peirce, Burton R. Pollin, Alexander G. Rose III, John Carlos Rowe, G. R. Thompson, Bruce I. Weiner

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Conference Attendees -- , Note Regarding Frequently Cited Works -- , Introduction -- , Literary Origins -- , "Mutiny and Atrocious Butchery": The Globe Mutiny as a Source for Pym -- , Poe's "Manual of 'Seamanship'" -- , Pym's Polar Episode: Conclusion or Beginning? -- , Novels, Tales, and Problems of Form in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- , Poe's Reading of Myth: The White Vision of Arthur Gordon Pym -- , Pym, the Dighton Rock, and the Matter of Vinland -- , Poe's Life Reflected through the Sources of Pym -- , Sociohistorical Contexts -- , Mourning in Poe's Pym -- , Poe, Antebellum Slavery, and Modern Criticism -- , Prefigurings -- , "Postmodern" or Post-Auschwitz: The Case of Poe -- , Figuration -- , Consumption, Exchange, and the Literary Marketplace: From the Folio Club Tales to Pym -- , Pym Pourri: Decomposing the Textual Body -- , The Quincuncial Network in Poe's Pym -- , The Arabesque Design of Arthur Gordon Pym -- , A Writer's View -- , "Still Farther South": Some Notes on Poe's Pym -- , A Bibliographer's View -- , Tracing Shadows: Pym Criticism, 1980-1990 -- , Notes -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822397601

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822397601

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Format: 1 online resource (369 p.)

ISBN: 0-8223-1246-8 , 0-8223-9760-9

Content: "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 in many ways his most ambitious. Here leading Poe scholars provide solutions and interpretations for many challenging enigmas in this mysterious novel.The product of a decade of research and planning, Poe's "Pym" offers a factual basis for some of the most fantastic elements in the novel and uncovers surprising connections between Poe's text and exploration literature, nautical lore, Arthurian narrative, nineteenth-century journalism, Moby Dick, and other writings. Representing a rich cross-section of current modes of literary study—from source study to psychoanalytic criticism to new historicism—these sixteen essays probe issues such as literary influence, the limits of language, racism, the holocaust, prolonged mourning, and the structure of the human mind. Poe's "Pym" will be an invaluable resource for students of both contemporary criticism and nineteenth-century American culture.Contributors. John Barth, Susan F. Beegel, J. Lasley Dameron, Grace Farrell, Alexander Hammond, David H. Hirsch, John T. Irwin, J. Gerald Kennedy, David Ketterer, Joan Tyler Mead, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Carol Peirce, Burton R. Pollin, Alexander G. Rose III, John Carlos Rowe, G. R. Thompson, Bruce I. Weiner

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , "Mutiny and atrocious butchery" : the Globe Mutiny as a source for Pym / , Poe's "Manual of 'seamanship'" / , Pym's polar episode : conclusion or beginning? / , Novels, tales, and problems of form in The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / , Poe's reading of myth : the white vision of Arthur Gordon Pym / , Pym, the Dighton Rock, and the matter of Vinland / , Poe's life reflected through the sources of Pym / , Mourning in Poe's Pym / , Poe, antebellum slavery, and modern criticism / , "Postmodern" or post-Auschwitz : the case of Poe / , Consumption, exchange, and the literary marketplace : from the Folio Club tales to Pym / , Pym pourri : decomposing the textual body / , The quincunical network in Poe's Pym / , The arabesque design of Arthur Gordon Pym / , "Still farther South" : some notes on Poe's Pym / , Tracing shadows : Pym criticism, 1980-1990 / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-10142-6

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-1235-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822397601