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Literary Criticism General

Edgar Allan Poe

Rhetoric and Style

by (author) Brett Zimmerman

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2005
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773528994
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572911
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

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.

About the author

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.

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