Edgar Allan Poe : rhetoric and style / Brett Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Brett, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Literary style.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 408 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zimmerman breaks new ground in Poe studies by providing a catalogue of three hundred figures of speech and thought in the author's oeuvre, including his tales, personal correspondence, literary criticism, book reviews, and marginalia. This incisive catalogue of literary and rhetorical terms, presented in alphabetical order and amply illustrated with examples - in addition to close examinations of some of Poe's most important tales - overwhelmingly demonstrates Poe's rhetorical and linguistic dexterity, putting a nearly two-hundred-year-old critical debate to rest by showing Poe to be a conscientious craftsman of the highest order.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's": Poe's Stylistic Versatility

Frantic Forensic Oratory and the Rhetoric of Self-Deceit: "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat"

Allegoria, Chronographia, and Clock Architecture in "The Masque of the Red Death"

Poe's Linguistic Comedy

The Linguistic Weaponry of the "Tomahawk Man": Poe's Critical Reviews

Catalogue of Rhetorical and Other Literary Terms in Poe's Works

The Terms by Type

Conclusion

Stauffer on Poe's "Five Styles"

Paranoid Schizophrenia in "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-386) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86355-X

9786612863554

0-7735-7291-0

OCLC:

191819022