SOURCE: “The Arabesque Design of Arthur Gordon Pym,” in Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations, edited by Richard Kopley, Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 188-213.
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.
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