Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe
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allegorical mourning
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Ars Memorativa
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Baroque Allegory
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chiasmus rhetoric
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Chiastic Design
Cryptographic Imagination
Dead Men
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early modern memory systems research
Early Modern Poetics
emblem studies
Enchanted Isles
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Father Mapple's Sermon
Father Mapple’s Sermon
German Tragic Drama
Graham's Magazine
Graham’s Magazine
Melancholy Landscape
Melville's Reading
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Melville’s Reading
Memory Palace
Mid Air
narrative structure theory
Partial Redemption
piazza
Piazza Tales
POE
Poe's Life
Poe’s Life
Prevenient Grace
pseudodoxia
Quarles's Conceit
Quarles’s Conceit
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Shakespeare’s Richard Iii
Sketch Fourth
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- ISBN 9781138261631
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their decisions about compositional practice, especially as it relates to public performance and the exigencies of publication. Engel's discussion of the narrative structure and emblematic aspects of Melville's Piazza Tales and Poe's "The Raven" serve as case studies that demonstrate the authors' debt to the past. Focusing principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus, Engel avoids engaging in a simple account of what these authors read and incorporated into their own writings. Instead, through an examination of their predisposition toward an earlier model of pattern recognition, he offers fresh insight into the writers' understandings of mourning and loss, their use of allegory, and what they gained from their use of pseudonyms.
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.
