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1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index. |
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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"). |
| Summary |
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 focuses principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus in order to illustrate the authors' profound debt to the past. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Encantadas.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Raven.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Literary style.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Literary style.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Literary style. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Literary style. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Literature. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Literature. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. |
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Encantadas (Melville, Herman) |
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Raven (Poe, Edgar Allan) |
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Memory in literature.
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Chiasmus.
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Melancholy in literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Electronic books.
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Literature.
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| Added Title |
Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Engel, William E., 1957- Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012 9781409435860 (DLC) 2011040915 (OCoLC)759048536 |
| ISBN |
9781409435877 (electronic bk.) |
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1409435873 (electronic bk.) |
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9781409435860 |
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1409435865 |
| Standard No. |
9786613480019 |
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