The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present / by Kopley, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd" -- "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales -- Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust" -- The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books -- Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead" -- The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" -- The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow" -- Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep -- The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train -- The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" …”
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The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present / by Kopley, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd" -- "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales -- Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust" -- The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books -- Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead" -- The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" -- The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow" -- Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep -- The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train -- The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" …”
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