![]() I hypothesize that some images call for explanation, creating ekphrastic anticipation when they lead the narrator or reader on to a course of interpretation, speculating on ideas and searching for meaning. ![]() Their functioning is compared to other kinds of sensory images they are joined with in Poe’s story. In this use, the term “literary image” refers to how sensory perceptions and abstract ideas take shape in the form of words, with touch images as the special object of study. The analysis will focus on the imagined touch perceptions the words mediate, and how they are rhetorically presented as literary images. Along the way, both for the narrator telling his story in retrospect and for the reader responding to his words, there are strange and awful things to be felt-some of which go unseen, others appear in full view. ![]() The sense of touch, a less studied aspect of “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842), is peculiar to how Poe’s story is experienced. ![]()
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