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The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - A Dialogue with Unreason (Hardcover)
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The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - A Dialogue with Unreason (Hardcover)
Series: Garland Studies in 19th Century American Literature
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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
disagreement at almost every level at which critics and scholars
read texts--including the nature and genre of the work, the
seriousness or levity of the author's intent, and its stature as a
work of genius, hackwork, or something in between. The unique set
of thematic and narrative problems the work poses has eluded every
hermeneutic structure brought against it so far, consistently
undermining the very reading strategies it seems to invite.
The only comprehensive critical history and bibliography of "Pym,"
this study fills a large hole Poe scholars have long felt, as it
analyzes the ways in which critics and critical camps have
attempted to confront, rationalize, contain, or evade its novel and
disturbing features. In the process, the criticism is correlated
with the popular reception and the international response. Because
literary history has entangled no author with his work more than
Poe, ultimately this book is as much a study of Poe as of "Pym." At
every point, therefore, this study embeds the critical response to
"Pym "in the history of Poe studies in general, as well as in the
larger context of American literary theory and history. Includes
bibliography and index.
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