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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... human violence and natural harmony . The human ferocity visited on whales reduces men to nature ; it does not separate them from it . Sharks , wounded to keep them from devouring the whale , devour each other . " Not a modern sun ever ...
... human violence and natural harmony . The human ferocity visited on whales reduces men to nature ; it does not separate them from it . Sharks , wounded to keep them from devouring the whale , devour each other . " Not a modern sun ever ...
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... human concerns . Webster may have had the size " of the Pyramids , " and his oratorical silences may have been monumental . But Webster offered reassur- ance ; Moby Dick's " pyramidal silence " ( 273 ) did not . The activity of whal ...
... human concerns . Webster may have had the size " of the Pyramids , " and his oratorical silences may have been monumental . But Webster offered reassur- ance ; Moby Dick's " pyramidal silence " ( 273 ) did not . The activity of whal ...
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... human authority . Mackenzie filled military forms with his flawed human content as he explained the executions to his crew . Then he employed an innovative ritual ( evidence , to some , of his insanity ) and piped the sailors down to ...
... human authority . Mackenzie filled military forms with his flawed human content as he explained the executions to his crew . Then he employed an innovative ritual ( evidence , to some , of his insanity ) and piped the sailors down to ...
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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