Herman Melville: An IntroductionWiley, 2008/01/29 - 228 ページ This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels.
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... Comic Skrimshander As necessary to the book as its blasphemy is its comic affirmation of a very different kind of spirit , the embracing , communitarian tendency embodied in Ishmael . As often as scholars have recognized the tragic ...
... Comic Skrimshander As necessary to the book as its blasphemy is its comic affirmation of a very different kind of spirit , the embracing , communitarian tendency embodied in Ishmael . As often as scholars have recognized the tragic ...
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... comic skrimshandering displays itself , with " so much of pathos , & so much of depth , " even more fully in chapter 42 , " The Whiteness of the Whale . " This meditation on the meaning of the whale's color , and on whiteness , light ...
... comic skrimshandering displays itself , with " so much of pathos , & so much of depth , " even more fully in chapter 42 , " The Whiteness of the Whale . " This meditation on the meaning of the whale's color , and on whiteness , light ...
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... comic choice , as he accepts his lot , refuses to fight the gods , as Ahab does , and adopts a rueful shrug : " Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt ? " ( p . 195 ) . But his comic acceptance is in many ways as dark as , if not darker than ...
... comic choice , as he accepts his lot , refuses to fight the gods , as Ahab does , and adopts a rueful shrug : " Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt ? " ( p . 195 ) . But his comic acceptance is in many ways as dark as , if not darker than ...
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Agatha and the Invention of Narrative | 12 |
Typee and Omoo | 27 |
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