| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations |
| 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") |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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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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| SUBJECT |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast |
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Encantadas (Melville, Herman) fast |
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Raven (Poe, Edgar Allan) fast |
| Subject |
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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Literature
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Chiasmus
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Melancholy in literature
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Memory in literature
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Literary style
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Minnet i litteraturen.
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Melankoli i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literature
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011040915 |
| ISBN |
9781409435877 |
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1409435873 |
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1317146859 |
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9781317146858 |
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1283480018 |
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9781283480017 |
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9786613480019 |
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6613480010 |
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