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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... symbols in his work. The title of the book, Subversive Genealogy, has a four-fold meaning. It indicates the political origins of Melville's fiction, and the subversion of those origins in his art. It also calls attention to the writer's ...
... symbols in his work. The title of the book, Subversive Genealogy, has a four-fold meaning. It indicates the political origins of Melville's fiction, and the subversion of those origins in his art. It also calls attention to the writer's ...
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... symbols than is characteristic of the realistic novel, and less through the action of characters in society.3 This modified understanding of the antebellum romance recovers the life in American art. It leaves unresolved the relationship ...
... symbols than is characteristic of the realistic novel, and less through the action of characters in society.3 This modified understanding of the antebellum romance recovers the life in American art. It leaves unresolved the relationship ...
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... symbols of hierarchy and deference from family to secondary institutions was one major way of healing the divisions between family and work in civil society. Defenders of factory, asylum, and, most importantly, plantation, all ...
... symbols of hierarchy and deference from family to secondary institutions was one major way of healing the divisions between family and work in civil society. Defenders of factory, asylum, and, most importantly, plantation, all ...
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... symbol has, by an arduous extension of its virtue, to produce the occasion.” James is lamenting the absence of strong social institutions, and the effort to replace them with symbols.32 That is the difference between Europe and America ...
... symbol has, by an arduous extension of its virtue, to produce the occasion.” James is lamenting the absence of strong social institutions, and the effort to replace them with symbols.32 That is the difference between Europe and America ...
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... symbols for the secondary institutions coming to dominate nineteenth-century America. The Bunker Hill address emphasized the Union. In the view Webster shared with others, however, and presented on other occasions, the state crowned a ...
... symbols for the secondary institutions coming to dominate nineteenth-century America. The Bunker Hill address emphasized the Union. In the view Webster shared with others, however, and presented on other occasions, the state crowned a ...
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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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