Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style by Brett Zimmerman
English | Sep. 1, 2005 | ISBN: 0773528997 | 432 Pages | PDF | 19 MB
Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that Poe was in fact a brilliant and deliberate lexical technician who varied his prose style according to genre and the world views and the mental health or illness of his narrators.
