Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe : memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition / / William E. Engel.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 191 p. |
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Table of 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").