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Edgar Allan Poe's celebrated "Ligeia"— one of his finest treatments of romantic love frustrated by death—may be a story that asserts the power of the human will; or "Ligeia" may be a story that demonstrates the destructive power of delusions. At the story's climax, is Ligeia's resurrection from the dead a supernatural event, or an hallucination by a man demented from obsessive grief and excessive opium, or both? The text of the story supports both readings and has thus inspired a lively debate among literary scholars. The two interpretations seem to argue in opposite directions: that...
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