The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason

ISBN-13: 9780815333036 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 232 str.

Ronald C. Harvey

Opis

Harvey was grappling with his own interpretation of Poe's only book-length narrative when he discovered a remarkable critical history that includes the widest possible disagreements on such basic factors as its genre, the seriousness of Poe's intent, its place on the spectrum between genius and hack

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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