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Edgar Allan Poe Biography (8)

Edgar Allan Poe

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Biography EssayWith a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantia... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

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Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

5,817 words, approx. 20 pages

On Thursday, September 27, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia by boat, heading for his home in New York. Poe never reached his destination. After visiting a friend in Baltimore on Se... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

34,421 words, approx. 115 pages

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence o... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,716 words, approx. 30 pages

Popular but not always respected in his own time, Edgar Poe is significant today not only for the quality of his best work but also for his influence on later writers. His poems were admired, especial... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,594 words, approx. 29 pages

The story of Edgar Allan Poe's life remains one of the most disputed and slandered in the pages of American biography, despite conscious attempts to revise the story and rehabilitate the life. Decaden... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe 's importance as a short-story writer may be seen in his pioneering contributions to the genre, in his theory of the tale, in the rich variety, meaning, and significance of his stories... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

36,222 words, approx. 121 pages

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most i... Read more

Essays & Analysis (14)

Critical Essay by Curtis Fukuchi

5,942 words, approx. 20 pages

In the following essay, Fukuchi explores the idea of providence in Pym's thematic and structural design, noting that human actions in the narrative are “played out against [a divine plan... Read more

Critical Essay by Carol Peirce and Alexander G. Rose III

10,880 words, approx. 37 pages

In the following essay, Peirce and Rose explore Poe's use of Celtic mythology in Pym, finding that it transforms the voyage narrative into a “revelation of symbolic vision.” Towar... Read more

Critical Essay by G. R. Thompson

12,085 words, approx. 41 pages

In the following essay, Thompson discusses the narrative structure of Pym and concludes that in his treatment of the idea of epistemology in the narrative, Poe anticipates postmodernist aesthetics. Th... Read more

Critical Essay by Domhnall Mitchell

4,029 words, approx. 14 pages

In the following essay, Mitchell discusses the theme of drinking in Pym, connecting it with Poe's references to biblical authority in justification of nineteenth-century Southern notions of whi... Read more

Critical Essay by Sam Worley

10,876 words, approx. 37 pages

In the following essay, Worley explores Pym as a novel “singularly concerned with race” in the context of Poe's views on slavery, and contends that the narrative undermines its ow... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Lyons

13,393 words, approx. 45 pages

In the following essay, Lyons examines the influence of several contemporary South Seas narratives on Pym, linking the whole genre with American colonial policy and expansionism. Talking one day of a ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Mainville

6,845 words, approx. 23 pages

In the following essay, Mainville examines Poe's handling of language in Pym and the unfinished Journal of Julius Rodman, and focuses on his creation of Gothic landscapes. Poe, in his two longe... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Rosenzweig

6,873 words, approx. 23 pages

In the following essay, Rosenzweig examines the narrative structure of Pym and contends that the narrative constitutes a unified whole, but one that attests to the impossibility of obtaining a final e... Read more

Critical Essay by John Limon

7,053 words, approx. 24 pages

In the following excerpt, Limon explores some ways in which Poe's scientific ideas described in his Eureka comment on problems in Pym, but points out that Pym remains firmly rooted in the realm... Read more

Critical Essay by Jules Zanger

3,312 words, approx. 12 pages

In the following essay, Zanger discusses the influence of Pym on three later narratives: Jules Verne's Le Sphinx des Glaces, H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, and Charles Da... Read more

Critical Essay by Dennis Pahl

7,783 words, approx. 26 pages

In the following essay, Pahl explores Poe's questioning of the idea of selfhood in Pym, as evidenced in his handling of the narrator. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is a text riddled with m... Read more

Critical Essay by Herbert F. Smith

5,821 words, approx. 20 pages

In the following essay, Smith discusses Pym using Roland Barthes's critical method of “decoding” and deems the work “a metafictional classic.” Modern readers of The ... Read more

Critical Essay by Cynthia Miecznikowski

5,254 words, approx. 18 pages

In the following essay, Miecznikowski cites Poe's Eureka as an “apologia” for Pym, noting that the former work justifies the idea that some mysteries cannot be adequately explaine... Read more

Critical Essay by William E. Lenz

3,965 words, approx. 14 pages

In the following essay, Lenz suggests that it was Poe, as is particularly evident in his Pym, who discovered the Antarctic as a locale suitable for gothic tales leading to “the deepest regions ... Read more

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Edgar Allan Poe