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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... Melville's fiction , and of the society refracted through it , must also be a history of Melville's family , and of the writer's re- lation to his kin ; and finally , that Melville rendered American history sym- bolically , so that a ...
... Melville's fiction , and of the society refracted through it , must also be a history of Melville's family , and of the writer's re- lation to his kin ; and finally , that Melville rendered American history sym- bolically , so that a ...
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... Melville's fiction . His romances call attention to the problematic relationships between the author , his art , and historical experi- ence . The intention here is neither to make Melville's romances real by re- ducing them to some ...
... Melville's fiction . His romances call attention to the problematic relationships between the author , his art , and historical experi- ence . The intention here is neither to make Melville's romances real by re- ducing them to some ...
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... Melville's subsequent fiction as well . It is the danger of a devouring , maternal power . Cannibalism perfectly embodies Tommo's primitive fears , for the island has awakened the boundaryless , de- vouring infant within him . That ...
... Melville's subsequent fiction as well . It is the danger of a devouring , maternal power . Cannibalism perfectly embodies Tommo's primitive fears , for the island has awakened the boundaryless , de- vouring infant within him . That ...
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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