SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGYKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013 M08 28 - 368 páginas In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how that family first engaged Melville in and then isolated him from American political and social life. Melville’s brother and father-in-law are shown to link Moby-Dick to the crisis over expansion and slavery. White-Jacket and Billy Budd, which concern shipboard conflicts between masters and seamen, are related to an execution at sea in which Melville’s cousin played a decisive part. The figure of Melville’s father haunts The Confidence Man, whose subject is the triumph of the marketplace and the absence of authority. A provocative study of one of our supreme literary artists. |
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... seems to contradict the promise that the book offers an escape from the world. Melville's pretense that he was simply reporting his own experience was itself fictional, however. He never intended that his tales should merely reproduce a.
... seems to contradict the promise that the book offers an escape from the world. Melville's pretense that he was simply reporting his own experience was itself fictional, however. He never intended that his tales should merely reproduce a.
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... escaped historically rooted European social inequality only to generate racial caste divisions just as explosive. The antebellum American liberal project faced the threat not of class struggle but of servile uprisings and civil war. But ...
... escaped historically rooted European social inequality only to generate racial caste divisions just as explosive. The antebellum American liberal project faced the threat not of class struggle but of servile uprisings and civil war. But ...
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... escape society; they penetrate and symbolically rework the social order. The false idea that there is some neutral social reality prior to explanation, privileges those literary and scientific forms that claim mimetic status. The ...
... escape society; they penetrate and symbolically rework the social order. The false idea that there is some neutral social reality prior to explanation, privileges those literary and scientific forms that claim mimetic status. The ...
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... escape, returned to democratic, American political transcendence (climaxing and exploding in Moby-Dick), and only then engaged in the social excavations which confronted his parents head-on. The account begins with Allan Melvill, from ...
... escape, returned to democratic, American political transcendence (climaxing and exploding in Moby-Dick), and only then engaged in the social excavations which confronted his parents head-on. The account begins with Allan Melvill, from ...
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... escape creditors he could not pay. There he could read every day, on the front page of the Albany Argus, a list of bankrupts like himself. The Argus provided a daily reminder of the public notoriety of his fall. New York extravagance ...
... escape creditors he could not pay. There he could read every day, on the front page of the Albany Argus, a list of bankrupts like himself. The Argus provided a daily reminder of the public notoriety of his fall. New York extravagance ...
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SOCIETY | |
Herman Melvilles Eighteenth Brumaire | |
THE STATE | |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd Melville in | |
Notes | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Paul Rogin Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |
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