Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style

Front Cover
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Sep 1, 2005 - Literary Collections - 432 pages
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.

From inside the book

Contents

Poes Stylistic Versatility
3
The TellTale Heart and The Black Cat
28
3 Allegoria Chronographia and Clock Architecture in The Masque of the Red Death
51
4 Poes Linguistic Comedy
63
Poes Critical Reviews
85
Catalogue of Rhetorical and Other Literary Terms in Poes Works
107
The Terms by Type
326
Conclusion
331
Stauffer on Poes Five Styles
337
Paranoid Schizophrenia in The TellTale Heart
342
Notes
355
Bibliography
375
Index
387
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2005)

Brett Zimmerman is the author of Herman Melville: Stargazer and numerous scholarly essays in magazines and academic journals in Canada, the United States, and England.

Bibliographic information