...Stephanie Kinzinger Stephanie Kinzinger, “Embodied Cognition in Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka ’s Cosmology, Dupin’s Intuition” (pp. 124–144) This essay argues that Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka (1848) anticipates contemporary cognitive science’s theories of embodied cognition, particularly the notion...

... of external, inhuman forces. Routing my discussion through a critical reading of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time , I argue that Poe's cosmological poem-essay Eureka and much of his short fiction—including “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”—present a model of the universe and of the natural world...