Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe [electronic resource] : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / William E. Engel.
By: Engel, William E.
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BookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., 2012Description: 191 p.Other title: Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition.Subject(s): 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 | Memory in literature | Chiasmus | Melancholy in literature | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.309 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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