Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe [electronic resource] : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / William E. Engel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., 2012.Description: 191 pOther title:
  • Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition
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  • 813/.309 23
LOC classification:
  • PS2384.E63 E54 2012eb
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Contents:
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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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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