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The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym A Dialogue with Unreason
By Ronald C. Harvey
Copyright 1998
234 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason traces the complex, scattered criticism of Poe's most anomalous work, as it has steadily grown in prominence to a central position in the study of Poe and American literature. The winding route the criticism of Pym has charted, as convoluted as the narrative itself, has been a history of... Read more
Chapter 1 “An Impudent and Ingenious Fiction”: Introduction; Chapter 2 “We Do Not See Any Good End in Such Descriptions”: Moral Censure and the First Hundred Years; Chapter 3 “A Language from the Depths”: Psychological Models; Chapter 4 “I Once Wrote a Very Silly Book”: The Problem of Form; Chapter 5 “A Correspondent Coloring”: The Historical Orientation; Chapter 6 “All the Outward Signs of Intelligibility”: Poe and Pym in the Dialogue of Modernism; aft Afterword;
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Ronald C. Harvey
