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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Judges like Shaw , who had once made the law serve human interests , now separated legalism from the living , contingent world . They shifted away from appeals to facts , lived experience , and the particularities of the case ...
Judges like Shaw , who had once made the law serve human interests , now separated legalism from the living , contingent world . They shifted away from appeals to facts , lived experience , and the particularities of the case ...
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( 32 ) Mel- ville had once made whalers symbolize pirate rebellion against his patrician family . The stone whalers , scuttled by pirates , have become patricians . Like tombstones , the sunken ships unite fathers and sons .
( 32 ) Mel- ville had once made whalers symbolize pirate rebellion against his patrician family . The stone whalers , scuttled by pirates , have become patricians . Like tombstones , the sunken ships unite fathers and sons .
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2 Kate Gansevoort lent the city of Albany her grandfather's uniform and her brother's regimental flag in 1886 to celebrate the bicentennial of the town which the Gansevoorts had once ruled . Stanwix Melville , weakened by ill- ness and ...
2 Kate Gansevoort lent the city of Albany her grandfather's uniform and her brother's regimental flag in 1886 to celebrate the bicentennial of the town which the Gansevoorts had once ruled . Stanwix Melville , weakened by ill- ness and ...
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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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