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Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition /
While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, Engel is the first to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their compositional practice. Rather than simply offering an account of what these authors read, Engel fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, Engel is the first to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their compositional practice. Rather than simply offering an account of what these authors read, Engel focuses principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus in order to illustrate the authors' profound debt to the past. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409435877 1409435873 1317146859 9781317146858 1283480018 9781283480017 9786613480019 6613480010 |