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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... Vere , " forms , measured forms " were all . " ( 128 ) 32 Vere's legal brief against Billy seemed extreme , evidence of his insanity . To give it plausibility , Melville invoked " without comment " the " com- mander of the Somers ...
... Vere , " forms , measured forms " were all . " ( 128 ) 32 Vere's legal brief against Billy seemed extreme , evidence of his insanity . To give it plausibility , Melville invoked " without comment " the " com- mander of the Somers ...
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... Vere's court , as in modernist fiction , deeds were not a reliable guide to mo- tives , no more for Billy's attack on Claggart than for Vere's judgment against the sailor . Vere distanced his court from Billy's action , and assigned ...
... Vere's court , as in modernist fiction , deeds were not a reliable guide to mo- tives , no more for Billy's attack on Claggart than for Vere's judgment against the sailor . Vere distanced his court from Billy's action , and assigned ...
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... Vere is stiff , Billy remains limp . Vere's rigidity is at once that of the guns between which Billy has lain ironed , and the " euthanasia " ( 124-25 ) which saves Billy from the normal posthanging ejaculation . Vere's erect posture is ...
... Vere is stiff , Billy remains limp . Vere's rigidity is at once that of the guns between which Billy has lain ironed , and the " euthanasia " ( 124-25 ) which saves Billy from the normal posthanging ejaculation . Vere's erect posture is ...
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