Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleKnopf, 1983 - 354 páginas Examines Herman Melville's use of the history of his family in the writing of his novels and analyzes the political views contained in his fiction. |
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Página 115
... Ahab's leg , it re- opens the wounds of nature's antagonism . Ahab is , his wound forces him to see , vulnerable to nature's power . Capitalist appropriation has failed him ( as it failed Allan Melvill ) , returning him to the devouring ...
... Ahab's leg , it re- opens the wounds of nature's antagonism . Ahab is , his wound forces him to see , vulnerable to nature's power . Capitalist appropriation has failed him ( as it failed Allan Melvill ) , returning him to the devouring ...
Página 117
... Ahab's growing frenzy . On the other hand , as Ahab acquires for himself the ferocity distrib- uted throughout nature , the natural world grows more benign . By making the white whale its target , Ahab's malevolence unifies the text ...
... Ahab's growing frenzy . On the other hand , as Ahab acquires for himself the ferocity distrib- uted throughout nature , the natural world grows more benign . By making the white whale its target , Ahab's malevolence unifies the text ...
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... Ahab , reversing the worldly hierarchy , appoints them " cup - bearers to my pagan kinsmen . " Harpooners and mates drink communion from the " mur- derous chalices " of the harpoon sockets , and swear death to Moby Dick . ( 140-141 ) Ahab ...
... Ahab , reversing the worldly hierarchy , appoints them " cup - bearers to my pagan kinsmen . " Harpooners and mates drink communion from the " mur- derous chalices " of the harpoon sockets , and swear death to Moby Dick . ( 140-141 ) Ahab ...
Contenido
The Red Rover | 3 |
POLITICS | 13 |
and Christians | 42 |
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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ahab Ahab's Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's Boston brother buttons called captain Cass Civil confidence Confidence-Man costume crew Custom House death democratic dome dream Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Ganse Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human Ibid imagined Indian Isabel Ishmael Israel Potter Jackson lawyer Lemuel Shaw Lincoln Mackenzie Mackenzie's Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville's fiction Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre's pirate poem political Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw's ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Thomas Melvill Thoreau tion Tocqueville Union Vere Vere's Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America