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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... whale . Let us replace the chronology of the tale with the chronology of the whale's transformation from its original birth in a state of nature to its final end as commodity . Moby - Dick's origin , from that perspective , is the ...
... whale . Let us replace the chronology of the tale with the chronology of the whale's transformation from its original birth in a state of nature to its final end as commodity . Moby - Dick's origin , from that perspective , is the ...
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... whale spreads devastation . The rope , which whips men in White - Jacket , murderously connects them to whales in Moby - Dick . Hunting might seem to free sailors from the captain's whip by placing the harpoon in their hands . There is ...
... whale spreads devastation . The rope , which whips men in White - Jacket , murderously connects them to whales in Moby - Dick . Hunting might seem to free sailors from the captain's whip by placing the harpoon in their hands . There is ...
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... whale . The Herald's metaphor undercut its argument . In Melville's alterna- tive ending , a whale sinks the fanatic . If one reads the ending of Moby - Dick in the light of the Herald's intention , then the white whale sank the Pequod ...
... whale . The Herald's metaphor undercut its argument . In Melville's alterna- tive ending , a whale sinks the fanatic . If one reads the ending of Moby - Dick in the light of the Herald's intention , then the white whale sank the Pequod ...
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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 |
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