Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance” in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
- 2 Retracing Our Steps in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Man of the Crowd”
- 3 “Scrutinizing the Parchment More Closely”: The Form of “The Gold-Bug” and Its Relationship to That of the Dupin Tales
- 4 Form and Reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Earth's Holocaust”
- 5 The Circle and Its Center in Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
- 6 Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
- 7 The Mythological Centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
- 8 Table as Text in James Joyce's “The Dead”
- 9 The Structure of Sherwood Anderson's “Hands”
- 10 The Architecture of Ernest Hemingway's “The Three-Day Blow”
- 11 Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
- 12 Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
- 13 The Ridge of the Domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train
- 14 The “X in the Air” in Joyce Carol Oates's “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
- 15 The Hybrid Center of Zadie Smith's White Teeth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance” in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
- 2 Retracing Our Steps in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Man of the Crowd”
- 3 “Scrutinizing the Parchment More Closely”: The Form of “The Gold-Bug” and Its Relationship to That of the Dupin Tales
- 4 Form and Reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Earth's Holocaust”
- 5 The Circle and Its Center in Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
- 6 Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
- 7 The Mythological Centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
- 8 Table as Text in James Joyce's “The Dead”
- 9 The Structure of Sherwood Anderson's “Hands”
- 10 The Architecture of Ernest Hemingway's “The Three-Day Blow”
- 11 Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
- 12 Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
- 13 The Ridge of the Domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train
- 14 The “X in the Air” in Joyce Carol Oates's “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
- 15 The Hybrid Center of Zadie Smith's White Teeth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Formal Center in LiteratureExplorations from Poe to the Present, pp. 177 - 192Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018