Body, Space, and Sensations in Edgar Allan Poe’s 'A Predicament'

Autor:	Justine Shu-Ting Kao
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	The deformed body Gothic Cathedral sensations Blackwood’s Magazine Edgar Allan Poe “A Predicament” Cultural Studies Psychoanalysis Literature and Literary Theory Body space Communication media_common.quotation_subject deformirano tijelo gotička katedrala osjeti „Nevolja“ Art media_common
Zdroj:	Anafora : Časopis za znanost o književnosti Volume VI Issue 2
ISSN:	2459-5160 1849-2339
DOI:	10.29162/anafora.v6i2.2
Popis:	This paper aims to examine the sensationalism of Blackwood’s Magazine as evident in Poe’s tale “A Predicament” and how Poe disengages from the tradition of Blackwoods. On the one hand, Poe conflates Psyche Zenobia’s adventure into a Gothic Cathedral with the Blackwood’s sensationalistic experience, which treats vehement sensations as the prime condition for stimulating the mind’s engagement with a spiritual vision of a world beyond the material world. On the other, Poe’s tale disengages itself from the tradition of Blackwood’s Magazine: Zenobia loses her sensations altogether in the quest for final knowledge and there is no return to her real life. This paper will further look at the mutilated/deformed body in Poe’s “A Predicament” as a body in pain, or without pain, through which the mind engages its imagination. It will also discuss how Poe, through Zenobia’s gaze and speculation upon a sublime cathedral, installs an aesthetic appreciation that distances an imaginary space from reality and facilitates self-mesmerism through which Zenobia is grounded in the earthly world, both physically and spiritually. Cilj je ovog rada analizirati prikaz senzacionalizma Blackwood’s Magazinea u pripovijetci „Nevolja” Edgara Allana Poea te Poeovo propitivanje tog senzacionalizma. Poe istovremeno isprepliće pustolovine Psyche Zenobije u Gotičkoj katedrali i Blackwood’s senzacionalističko iskustvo, koje snažne osjete smatra glavnim stimulirajućim uvjetom za interakciju uma sa spiritualnom vizijom svijeta izvan materijalnog svijeta, ali se i distancira od tradicije Blackwood’s Magazinea. Zenobia u potpunosti gubi svoje osjete u potrazi za ultimativnim znanjem te se ne može vratiti svom stvarnom životu. Rad se bavi i osakaćenim/deformiranim tijelom u Poeovoj pripovijetci kao tijelom koje osjeti, ili ne osjeti bol te tako omogućuje umu da se koristi imaginacijom. Naposljetku, rad pokazuje kako Poe, pomoću Zenobijina pogleda i razmišljanjima o uzvišenosti katedrale, promiče estetski doživljaj koji odvaja imaginaran prostor od stvarnosti te stvara samoopčinjenost koja smješta Zenobiju i fizički i spiritualno u zemaljski svijet.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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