The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present /

An investigation of the phenomenon of the framed formal center in literature of the last 180 years, illuminating both the works and correspondences among works of different genres, periods, and nations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kopley, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Camden House, 2018.
Colección:Studies in English and American literature and culture.
Temas:
1800-2099
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 21st century.
Symmetry in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Narration > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Narration > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Symétrie dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Symmetry in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
English literature
American literature
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
  • Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd"
  • "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales
  • Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust"
  • The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener"
  • Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
  • The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books
  • Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead"
  • The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands"
  • The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow"
  • Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon
  • Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep
  • The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train
  • The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?"
  • The hybrid center of Zadie Smith's White teeth.

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