caa a22 4500 386366217 CHVBK 20180307111934.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800003753 doi S0021875800003753 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800003753 Manning Susan Dr Susan Manning is University Assistant Lecturer in English and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, CB3 9DF, England. "The plots of God are perfect”: Poe's Eureka and American Creative Nihilism [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Manning] Your diddler is ingenious. He has constructiveness large. He understands plot. He invents and circumvents. The attempt to bridge the chasm between multiplicity and unity is the oldest problem of philosophy, religion and science, but the flimsiest bridge of all is the human Concept, unless somewhere, within or beyond it, an energy not individual is hidden; and in that case the old question instantly reappears: - What is that Energy? Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 235-251 0021-8758 23:2<235 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800003753 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800003753 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Manning Susan Dr Susan Manning is University Assistant Lecturer in English and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, CB3 9DF, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 235-251 0021-8758 23:2<235 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge