Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engel, William E., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Encantadas.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849. > Raven.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Literary style.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Literary style.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Knowledge > Literature.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Knowledge > Literature.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Encantadas (Melville, Herman)
Raven (Poe, Edgar Allan)
Memory in literature.
Chiasmus.
Melancholy in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Chiasme.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature.
Literary style.
Minnet i litteraturen.
Melankoli i litteraturen.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: stylistic choices and intellectual armature
  • Melville's melancholy landscapes. Salvator R. Tarnmoor's mnemonic itinerary; Allegories of decay and the decay of allegory; Mime and masquerade in the theatrum mundi
  • Poe's mirrored memory palaces. The William Wilson effect; Magical architecture and chiastic echoes; Emblems of mournful and never-ending remembrance
  • Conclusion : reclaiming irredeemable loss
  • Appendix ("The raven").

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