Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe [electronic resource] : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / William E. Engel.
Publication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., 2012.Description: 191 pOther title:- Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition
- 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.)
- 813/.309 23
- PS2384.E63 E54 2012eb
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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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