Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe
Subtitle: memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition
By: by William E. Engel
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409435860; 9781409435877
Subjects: Literary style; Literature; Knowledge; Melancholy in literature; Chiasmus; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Memory in literature
Other titles: Memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: stylistic choices and intellectual armature; title: 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; title: Poe's mirrored memory palaces. The William Wilson effect; Magical architecture and chiastic echoes; Emblems of mournful and never-ending remembrance; title: Conclusion : reclaiming irredeemable loss; title: Appendix ("The raven").