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Poe's Pym : critical explorations

Author: Richard Kopley
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
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Poe's Pym.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1992
(OCoLC)645832942
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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