Article: Polar apocalypse in Coleridge and Poe.(Critical Essay)

The frozen continent of the south--a land of white denial, empty as air and full as the void--has spawned a history of negative discovery, a hermeneutics of despair. (1) The intractable ice has driven human beings to distraction, to violent projections of rigid orders, to quick annihilations of all categories. These are the two forms of failed Antarctic interpretation: the exoteric and the esoteric. Exoteric readings of the icy terra incognita have resolved into aggressive cartographies, efforts to wrench the other into the same, mystery into commodity. Failure to achieve these distortions has ended in revenge against some synecdoche for the immense ice, a scapegoat ...

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