Treacherous lines : death and the limits of language in Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville

This research focuses on the relationship between death and language, as it is presented in the literature of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. I argue that Poe and Melville share a conception of the limits of language, and represent encounters with these limits as ones that, in a variety of ways...

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Main Author: Packham, Jimmy
Published: University of Bristol 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701815