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 was jurist on the Bellipotent . The Somers mutineers were slain " without formal process , " " according to nature's laws . " Vere split apart nature and legality ; he invoked the letter of the law . " The finger of God " wrote the ...
... Vere was jurist on the Bellipotent . The Somers mutineers were slain " without formal process , " " according to nature's laws . " Vere split apart nature and legality ; he invoked the letter of the law . " The finger of God " wrote the ...
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... Vere's court made a radical attack not only on traditional ideas of the law , but on the traditional form of the novel as well . It may be a strange sort of novel which turns on a judgment in court . But at its inception the novel form ...
... Vere's court made a radical attack not only on traditional ideas of the law , but on the traditional form of the novel as well . It may be a strange sort of novel which turns on a judgment in court . But at its inception the novel form ...
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... Vere took on himself the burden of the suffering for which the public Vere was responsible . Mackenzie killed one sailor - boy to preserve the innocence of another . Vere preserved the inno- cence of the one he killed . Billy's ...
... Vere took on himself the burden of the suffering for which the public Vere was responsible . Mackenzie killed one sailor - boy to preserve the innocence of another . Vere preserved the inno- cence of the one he killed . Billy'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