"This volume calls attention to the increased centrality of "Pym" to our understanding of postmodern American literature. It will prove an essential resource for every scholar in the growing field of Poe studies."--Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth University

Richard Kopley is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, DuBois Campus.

Acknowledgments ix
Conference Attendees xi
Note Regarding Frequently Cited Books xiii
Introduction / Richard Kopley 1
"Mutiny and Atrocious Butchery": The Globe Mutiny as a Source for Pym / Susan F. Beegel 7
Poe's "Manual of 'Seamanship'" / Joan Tyler Mead 20
Pym's Polar Episode: Conclusion or Beginning? / J. Lasley Dameron 33
Novels, Tales, and Problems of Form in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Bruce I. Weiner 44
Poe's Reading of Myth: The White Vision of Arthur Gordon Pym / Carol Peirce and Alexander G. Rose III 57
Pym, The DIghton Rock, and the Matter of Vinland / Joseph J. Moldenhauer 75
Poe's Life Reflected through the Sources of Pym / Burton R. Pollin 95
Mourning in Poe's Pym / Grace Farrell 107
Poe, Antebellum Slavery, and Modern Criticism / John Carlos Rowe 117
"Postmodern" or Post-Auschwitz: The Case of Poe / David H. Hirsch 141
Consumption, Exchange, and the Literary Marketplace: From the Folio Club Tales to Pym / Alexander Hammond 153
Pym Pourri: Decomposing the Textual Body / J. Gerald Kennedy 167
The Quincuncial Network in Poe's Pym / John T. Irwin 175
The Arabesque Design of Arthur Gordon Pym / G.R. Thompson 188
"Still Farther South": Some Notes on Poe's Pym / John Barth 217
Tracing Shadows: Pym Criticism, 1980-1990 / David Ketterer 233
Notes 275
Contributors 329
Index 333