TY - BOOK AU - Engel,William E. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe: memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition AV - PS2384.E63 E54 2012eb U1 - 813/.309 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate Pub. KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Poe, Edgar Allan, KW - Memory in literature KW - Chiasmus KW - Melancholy in literature KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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"); Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10529462 ER -