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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... Israel Potter , a forgotten veteran of the Revolution . But while the Revolution liberated Lincoln from his stone sepulcher , it built a stone sepulcher for Israel Potter . Israel Potter's prisons , however , are the last in Melville's ...
... Israel Potter , a forgotten veteran of the Revolution . But while the Revolution liberated Lincoln from his stone sepulcher , it built a stone sepulcher for Israel Potter . Israel Potter's prisons , however , are the last in Melville's ...
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... Israel's Christ ; instead he dies himself . None- theless , Israel rises out of Squire Woodcock's tomb , and flees his prison . 12 Blasphemous comedy foreshadows pathos . Israel is entombed for forty years after the Revolution , as a ...
... Israel's Christ ; instead he dies himself . None- theless , Israel rises out of Squire Woodcock's tomb , and flees his prison . 12 Blasphemous comedy foreshadows pathos . Israel is entombed for forty years after the Revolution , as a ...
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... Israel Potter . To convince a farmer that he is , in his tattered disguise , a scarecrow , Israel stands " stiffly erect " and " motionless . " ( 109 ) He turns himself to stone to avoid the pitchfork aimed at his eye . But Israel fails ...
... Israel Potter . To convince a farmer that he is , in his tattered disguise , a scarecrow , Israel stands " stiffly erect " and " motionless . " ( 109 ) He turns himself to stone to avoid the pitchfork aimed at his eye . But Israel fails ...
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 |
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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