Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and StyleZimmerman 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
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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 |
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