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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( 156 ) What is the relationship between the profitable possession of the body of the whale , and Ahab's ... The book develops structurally , however , by drawing us at once back toward the genesis of whales and forward to the ...
( 156 ) What is the relationship between the profitable possession of the body of the whale , and Ahab's ... The book develops structurally , however , by drawing us at once back toward the genesis of whales and forward to the ...
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( 303 ) Entangled in a harpoon line , this 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 ...
( 303 ) Entangled in a harpoon line , this 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 ...
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Abolitionists might destroy the Union , but human agitators could hardly raise a storm that would sink a whale . The Herald's metaphor undercut its argument . In Melville's alterna- tive ending , a whale sinks the fanatic .
Abolitionists might destroy the Union , but human agitators could hardly raise a storm that would sink a whale . The Herald's metaphor undercut its argument . In Melville's alterna- tive ending , a whale sinks the fanatic .
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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