![]() ![]() Since then, every subsequent critical school has interpreted Pym through its own narrow aesthetic, or increasingly political, perspective. Auden and the New Critics resurrected it for the Age of Academia. Long forgotten after Poe had been buried both literally (in 1849) and critically, Pym moldered in ragged omnibus editions for nearly 100 years before W. Its catalog of atrocities and incidents, which includes cannibalism, drownings, ax murders, shootings (with muskets and pistols), a ghost ship crammed with rotting corpses, a shark feeding frenzy, a landslide, and a mass-casualty explosion, combined with a nightmare symbolism have inspired both interpretation and incredulity. As the only novel written by Edgar Allan Poe, its historical importance is unquestionable as a literary work, it is mystifying. T he Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the Voynich manuscript of American literature. ![]()
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