Death as an Unstable Threshold (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Self-Publishing, 2026

9798237323016

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Paperback. Death as an Unstable Threshold reinterprets Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" by arguing that death in the tale does not function as a stable boundary between life and non-life, presence and absence, past and present. Instead, it becomes an unstable threshold: a point of passage whose completion can never be securely verified. From this premise, the book examines how uncertainty about mortality spreads into other categories-time, memory, personal identity, causality, perception, ethics, and language.The study begins from the narrator's inability to remember "how, when, or even precisely where" he first met Ligeia. This failure of autobiographical certainty becomes a model for the tale. Ligeia's death does not make her securely past; memory preserves and idealizes her so intensely that Rowena, the narrator's second wife, can never acquire an autonomous present. Mourning becomes repetition, and the past continues to act upon the present.The analysis then turns to embodiment and identity. The final scene appears to transform Rowena's body into Ligeia, but the evidence comes entirely through a narrator compromised by grief, obsession, opium, hatred of Rowena, and unstable perception. The book refuses supernatural certainty and reductive psychological explanation. Unreliability creates reasons for doubt, but it does not provide an objective alternative account.Particular attention is given to will, the Glanvill epigraph, Poe's correspondence with Philip Pendleton Cooke, and the later insertion of "The Conqueror Worm." These elements suggest resistance to death, yet they never establish a metaphysical doctrine. Will remains a hypothesis rather than a demonstrable force, while the poem's vision of mortality complicates any simple interpretation of Ligeia's return as triumph over death.The ending is read as an "anti-revelation" the narrator reaches absolute recognition-he names Ligeia-at the very moment when verification is least available. The climax produces certainty of naming without certainty of event, cause, or ontology. This gap between recognition and knowledge is central to the book.The study also gives Rowena an ethical significance. Whether Ligeia literally returns or is only projected by the narrator, Rowena's identity is erased. The desire to preserve one woman beyond death has a cost for another woman whose presence and subjectivity are displaced. The metaphysical problem is inseparable from an ethical one.Drawing together close reading, Gothic tradition, textual history, narratology, gender criticism, and philosophical analysis, the book proposes that "Ligeia" is not merely ambiguous. Its uncertainties are structured and cumulative. Death destabilizes time; unstable time weakens identity; unstable identity invites will as explanation; contested explanation exposes the limits of knowledge; failed knowledge undermines closure and consolation; the desire for survival reveals ethical costs; and language finally names what it cannot fully explain.The central question is no longer simply whether Ligeia returns from the dead. The deeper question is what happens to narrative and human categories when death can no longer guarantee an ending. The threshold model does not solve the tale's mystery; it maps why that mystery continues to generate psychological, metaphysical, ethical, and linguistic consequences for readers and critics. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Death as an Unstable Threshold (Paperback)
Autor
Amodio Tortora
Verlag
Self-Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798237323016

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