Homicidal Narrator

Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Brett Zimmerman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.