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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... Bartleby inhabits , beneath tangible ap- pearance , " the ghostly aspect of reality . " Outside of history , he is given no specific social fate . Bartleby's absence of qualities , however , does place him historically . Bartleby ...
... Bartleby inhabits , beneath tangible ap- pearance , " the ghostly aspect of reality . " Outside of history , he is given no specific social fate . Bartleby's absence of qualities , however , does place him historically . Bartleby ...
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... Bartleby's withdrawals discredit the lawyer ; they expose his bad faith . Unwilling to commit himself fully to the scrivener , he tries to set boundaries to the relationship . Those boundaries become Bartleby's targets . Contrac- tual ...
... Bartleby's withdrawals discredit the lawyer ; they expose his bad faith . Unwilling to commit himself fully to the scrivener , he tries to set boundaries to the relationship . Those boundaries become Bartleby's targets . Contrac- tual ...
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... Bartleby's hermitage is no escape from society . Finally , Bartleby is taken off to jail . There he might have joined Thomas Melvill , whose " sensibility " became " morbid , " he wrote his brother , from being consigned to debtor's ...
... Bartleby's hermitage is no escape from society . Finally , Bartleby is taken off to jail . There he might have joined Thomas Melvill , whose " sensibility " became " morbid , " he wrote his brother , from being consigned to debtor's ...
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