"Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" : The Abyss of Interpretation

Longer and more troubling than any other work in the Poe corpus, the tale of Pym's travels on the sea and to the white abyss of polar regions is here interpreted by Kennedy.

All of Poe's "gloomy imaginings - fears of thirst, famine, suffocation, and premature internment" are considered here as well as the narrators' spectacular unreliability as truth tellers.The Masterwork Studies are readable explorations of classic texts.

The goal of each Masterwork Study is to encourage creative thinking, enabling students to arrive at sound analyses of their own.

Each volume illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text using clear and conversational language.