Title The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present / Richard Kopley

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Camden House, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) Series Studies in English and American literature and culture Studies in English and American literature and culture. Contents Introduction -- "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd" -- "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales -- Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust" -- The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books -- Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead" -- The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" -- The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow" -- Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep -- The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train -- The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" -- The hybrid center of Zadie Smith's White teeth Summary An investigation of the phenomenon of the framed formal center in literature of the last 180 years, illuminating both the works and correspondences among works of different genres, periods, and nations Subject Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 21st century Symmetry in literature. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Symmetry in literature Narration (Rhetoric) English literature American literature Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787443501 1787443507

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