William E. Engel

Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe (eBook, ePUB)

Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317146858
• Artikelnr.: 44991577

Autorenporträt

William E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of English Literature at The University of the South, in Sewanee, TN. He is the author of five books on early modern intellectual history and visual culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Melville's Melancholy Landscapes
Chapter 2 Poe's Mirrored Memory Palaces
Chapter 101 Conclusion