02979nam 2200673 a 450 991045753080332120200520144314.01-317-14685-91-283-48001-897866134800191-4094-3587-3(CKB)2550000000087628(EBL)866373(OCoLC)775498760(SSID)ssj0000598966(PQKBManifestationID)11384982(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598966(PQKBWorkID)10610765(PQKB)10424604(MiAaPQ)EBC866373(MiAaPQ)EBC5293689(Au-PeEL)EBL866373(CaPaEBR)ebr10529462(CaONFJC)MIL919175(Au-PeEL)EBL5293689(CaONFJC)MIL348001(EXLCZ)99255000000008762820111021d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly modern poetics in Melville and Poe[electronic resource] memory, melancholy, and the emblematic tradition /William E. EngelFarnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, Vt. Ashgate Pub.20121 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4094-3586-5 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").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.Memory in literatureChiasmusMelancholy in literatureInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Electronic books.Memory in literature.Chiasmus.Melancholy in literature.Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)813/.309Engel William E.1957-932592MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457530803321Early modern poetics in Melville and Poe2098666UNINA