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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: Critical Essay by John Limon

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SOURCE: “How to Place Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym in Science-Dominated Intellectual History, and How to Extract It Again,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1, Winter, 1983, pp. 31-47.

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 of fiction.

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