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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Poe's Pym. Durham : Duke University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)645832942 |
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| Named Person: | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Kopley |
| ISBN: | 0822312352 9780822312352 0822312468 9780822312468 |
| OCLC Number: | 25282832 |
| Description: | xiii, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard Kopley. |
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