![]() In order to over¬come this pre¬di¬ca¬ment Poe even¬tu¬ally aban¬dons the fic¬tio¬nal rhe¬to¬ric of sub¬jec¬tive ex¬pe¬rien¬ce al¬together, as he adopts with Eureka a phi¬lo¬so¬phical and scien¬ti¬fic mode of re¬pre¬senta¬tion. However, as Poe tries to forego the medi¬cally central no¬tion of tran¬sito¬ri¬ness, he ends up tot¬al¬iz¬ing the inter¬mediate state and thus renders it virtually incom¬mu¬nicable. Thus, the popu¬lar medi¬cal as¬sump¬tion of an in¬ter¬medi¬ate pe¬riod bet¬ween life and death resur¬faces in Poe's writing when he envi¬sions an ideal state of tota¬li¬ty and indi¬vidual inte¬grity which is stric¬tly spea¬king neit¬her life nor de¬ath¬. I will read Edgar Allan Poe's fictional approaches to the topic of death and dying by light of these new ideas and posi¬tions. In the early nineteenth century, a vast network of scientific and pseudo-scientific publications on the nature, meaning and status of death evolved, which induced a pervasive reev¬al¬ua¬tion of long-established cultural tene¬ts. ![]()
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