Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleExamines 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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Neither method , Tocqueville believed , could grasp the living " body social . " Neither , by the same token , could grasp the body of the whale . " 17 Ishmael is first the cetologist , dividing whales into types and dissecting the ...
Neither method , Tocqueville believed , could grasp the living " body social . " Neither , by the same token , could grasp the body of the whale . " 17 Ishmael is first the cetologist , dividing whales into types and dissecting the ...
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Despotism , to reach the soul , clumsily struck at the body , and the soul , escaping from such blows , rose gloriously above it ; but in democratic re- publics tyranny leaves the body alone and goes straight for the soul .
Despotism , to reach the soul , clumsily struck at the body , and the soul , escaping from such blows , rose gloriously above it ; but in democratic re- publics tyranny leaves the body alone and goes straight for the soul .
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As Peter Schlemihl lost his shadow to the devil , so the confi- dence man sells his body His masquerade shatters the illusion of a single , hidden self , detached and manipulative behind the scenes . 39 Masquerade might seem to belong ...
As Peter Schlemihl lost his shadow to the devil , so the confi- dence man sells his body His masquerade shatters the illusion of a single , hidden self , detached and manipulative behind the scenes . 39 Masquerade might seem to belong ...
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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 |
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Ahab Allan Melvill American appears authority Bartleby Benito Billy Budd body Boston brother called captain characters Civil claimed clothing confidence Confidence-Man connection contrast crew death died dream escape failed father fiction followed forced freedom Gansevoort Melville gives Guert hand Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human imagined Indian institutions Isabel Ishmael Israel Jackson John land lawyer letter living look lost Mackenzie master meaning Melville's Moby-Dick mother mutiny nature novel offered officer once Parker Pequod Peter Gansevoort Pierre Pierre's political promised Redburn refused relations replaced returned Review revolutionary romance Rover sailors savage Shaw ship slave slavery social society Somers sons Spencer Stanwix stone story symbols Thomas tion turned Typee Union Vere wall wanted Webster whale White-Jacket writing wrote York Young