The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
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SOURCE: “Poe's Providential Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1981, pp. 147-56.

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” that renders them ineffectual.]

The ending of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym has been variously interpreted as a racist allegory, a journey into the depths of the unconscious, a psychological reversion to infancy through return to a maternal figure, a metaphysical journey revealing the meaninglessness, incoherence, or inscrutability of existence, and a spiritual quest for final knowledge or perfect unity.1 The last is closest to the mark, I believe, especially in view of the theological significance at the conclusion of the narrative of the white figure, resembling the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel...

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