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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( 51-52 ) That self - made coffin , like crystallized salt , turns the sailor to stone . ... snakelike rope and vine seems to remind White - Jacket of the Me- dusa head , the sight of which turned sailors to stone .
( 51-52 ) That self - made coffin , like crystallized salt , turns the sailor to stone . ... snakelike rope and vine seems to remind White - Jacket of the Me- dusa head , the sight of which turned sailors to stone .
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Cousin and brother flourish in the fiction ; the common sailor is nearly a suicide . In life these positions were reversed . ... Common sailors are subject to flogging , White - Jacket has earlier protested , while officers are not .
Cousin and brother flourish in the fiction ; the common sailor is nearly a suicide . In life these positions were reversed . ... Common sailors are subject to flogging , White - Jacket has earlier protested , while officers are not .
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The Neversink's sailors let their beards grow as the ship approaches port . " A pretty set of savages . ' " thought the captain , " am I taking home to America .... They must be shaven and shorn . ' " ( 356 ) Gansevoort Melville urged ...
The Neversink's sailors let their beards grow as the ship approaches port . " A pretty set of savages . ' " thought the captain , " am I taking home to America .... They must be shaven and shorn . ' " ( 356 ) Gansevoort Melville urged ...
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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