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.

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.

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.”

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 own pro-slavery subtext.

In the following essay, Pahl explores Poe's questioning of the idea of selfhood in Pym, as evidenced in his handling of the narrator.

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.

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 explanation.

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.

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.]

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

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 explained.

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 white supremacy.

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 of our primitive imagination.”

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 Dake's “Hans Pfall.”