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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( 140-141 ) Ahab christens his hickory harpoon in savage fire and blood in the sec- ond ritual . He welds it in the Parsee's " fire " and baptizes it , in the name of the devil , in the harpooners ' " baptismal blood .
( 140-141 ) Ahab christens his hickory harpoon in savage fire and blood in the sec- ond ritual . He welds it in the Parsee's " fire " and baptizes it , in the name of the devil , in the harpooners ' " baptismal blood .
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This savage child is the return of the dispos- sessed child of nature . Pierre first talks to her in the woods , thick with the " devilish gibberish of the forest ghosts . " ( 110 ) Isabel has the characteristics assigned in nineteenth ...
This savage child is the return of the dispos- sessed child of nature . Pierre first talks to her in the woods , thick with the " devilish gibberish of the forest ghosts . " ( 110 ) Isabel has the characteristics assigned in nineteenth ...
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Were Isabel the male savage of American his- tory and fiction , she might allow Pierre to escape his family into celibate American nature . She might do for Pierre what Chingachgook does for Leatherstocking .
Were Isabel the male savage of American his- tory and fiction , she might allow Pierre to escape his family into celibate American nature . She might do for Pierre what Chingachgook does for Leatherstocking .
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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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