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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custom - house man is a " foiled wolf . " ( 22 ) One of the " hunted generation of wolves , " exterminated by the foxes , he speaks as the last Mohawk . The custom - house man's suspicion of Black Guinea is met with resent- ment .
custom - house man is a " foiled wolf . " ( 22 ) One of the " hunted generation of wolves , " exterminated by the foxes , he speaks as the last Mohawk . The custom - house man's suspicion of Black Guinea is met with resent- ment .
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The confidence man spreads deception for its own sake . As he draws the other passengers into his fic- tions , he reveals the fictitious character of their own stories . They , like him , construct self - justifying fictions about their ...
The confidence man spreads deception for its own sake . As he draws the other passengers into his fic- tions , he reveals the fictitious character of their own stories . They , like him , construct self - justifying fictions about their ...
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In the colors of the rainbow and the persona of a fool , he seems to have merged all the confidence man's disguises into one . Black Guinea , however , had listed a man in a violet robe . The cosmopolitan's robe is multicolored .
In the colors of the rainbow and the persona of a fool , he seems to have merged all the confidence man's disguises into one . Black Guinea , however , had listed a man in a violet robe . The cosmopolitan's robe is multicolored .
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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
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| Título | Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Borzoi book |
| Autor | Michael Paul Rogin |
| Editor | Knopf, 1983 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 039450609X, 9780394506098 |
| Largo | 354 páginas |
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