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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... man's mas- querade is no more an escape from life than Melville's Piazza Tales were romances . The masquerade rather calls attention to the fictionalized , self- constructed character of American life . The confidence man exposes the ab ...
... man's mas- querade is no more an escape from life than Melville's Piazza Tales were romances . The masquerade rather calls attention to the fictionalized , self- constructed character of American life . The confidence man exposes the ab ...
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... man spreads deception for its own sake . As he draws the other passengers into his fic- tions , he reveals the ... man's confidence that he can manipulate others ( or observe their manipula- tion ) while remaining detached himself ...
... man spreads deception for its own sake . As he draws the other passengers into his fic- tions , he reveals the ... man's confidence that he can manipulate others ( or observe their manipula- tion ) while remaining detached himself ...
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... man's disguises into one . Black Guinea , however , had listed a man in a violet robe . The cosmopolitan's robe is multicolored . Charles Noble wears no robe , but he has a violet vest . Which is the confidence man ? Has he split in two ...
... man's disguises into one . Black Guinea , however , had listed a man in a violet robe . The cosmopolitan's robe is multicolored . Charles Noble wears no robe , but he has a violet vest . Which is the confidence man ? Has he split in two ...
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