The Formal Center in Literature: Explorations from Poe to the Present

by Richard Kopley

This book concerns the framed center in selected literary works of the 19th to 21st centuries. Such a center involves a critical passage bracketed by two halves of a text that feature language and/or plot that mirror each other. Recognizing the author's formal emphasis on the critical central passage encourages a thoughtful attention to it. Like other literary techniques, including allegory and metaphor, the framed center does not provide a single...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140328
• ISBN13: 9781640140325
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"