Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Conference Attendees xi
5. Note Regarding Frequently Cited Works xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Literary Origins
8. "Mutiny and Atrocious Butchery": The Globe Mutiny as a Source for Pym 7
9. Poe's "Manual of 'Seamanship'" 20
10. Pym's Polar Episode: Conclusion or Beginning? 33
11. Novels, Tales, and Problems of Form in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym 44
12. Poe's Reading of Myth: The White Vision of Arthur Gordon Pym 57
13. Pym, the Dighton Rock, and the Matter of Vinland 75
14. Poe's Life Reflected through the Sources of Pym 95
15. Sociohistorical Contexts
16. Mourning in Poe's Pym 107
17. Poe, Antebellum Slavery, and Modern Criticism 117
18. Prefigurings
19. "Postmodern" or Post-Auschwitz: The Case of Poe 141
20. Figuration
21. Consumption, Exchange, and the Literary Marketplace: From the Folio Club Tales to Pym 153
22. Pym Pourri: Decomposing the Textual Body 167
23. The Quincuncial Network in Poe's Pym 175
24. The Arabesque Design of Arthur Gordon Pym 188
25. A Writer's View
26. "Still Farther South": Some Notes on Poe's Pym 217
27. A Bibliographer's View
28. Tracing Shadows: Pym Criticism, 1980-1990 233
29. Notes 275
30. Contributors 329
31. Index 333