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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... Pierre's father gains , by his absence , enormous presence in Pierre's life . His " perfect marble form " is a " shrine " in Pierre's heart ; Pierre worships at it . The shrine " support [ s ] the entire one - pillared temple of [ Pierre's ] ...
... Pierre's father gains , by his absence , enormous presence in Pierre's life . His " perfect marble form " is a " shrine " in Pierre's heart ; Pierre worships at it . The shrine " support [ s ] the entire one - pillared temple of [ Pierre's ] ...
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... Pierre . His grandfather's vest is too large for him when he tries it on at the beginning of the novel . Unlike Ahab and Andrew Jackson , Pierre does not rise to power without the " dignity of ... robed investiture . " Though he leaves ...
... Pierre . His grandfather's vest is too large for him when he tries it on at the beginning of the novel . Unlike Ahab and Andrew Jackson , Pierre does not rise to power without the " dignity of ... robed investiture . " Though he leaves ...
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... Pierre undermines his ability to write . All fiction , he now believes , is self- referential . It offers access to no reality outside of its author's obsessions . Books do not function as windows onto the world . They do not , as ...
... Pierre undermines his ability to write . All fiction , he now believes , is self- referential . It offers access to no reality outside of its author's obsessions . Books do not function as windows onto the world . They do not , as ...
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