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| Author | : Herman Melville |
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| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1847 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Peter J. Bellis |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2018-01-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1512800597 |
In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhood—the integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical text—that Melville explores throughout his work. He shows how, as Melville texts each of these, his work becomes increasingly self-reflexive and self-critical; his search for an absolute ground for both self and text ends by undermining the very authority it would establish. In this Melville differed markedly from Whitman and Thoreau, who did find or create identities for themselves in their writing. Bellis examines Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man, to show his method as ultimately deconstructive—culminating, in fact, in the abandonment of Melville's own career as a novelist.
| Author | : Corey Evan Thompson |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2021-06-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476642710 |
This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.
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| Total Pages | : 1206 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : American literature |
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| Author | : Mary K. Bercaw Edwards |
| Publisher | : Studies in Port and Maritime H |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2021-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1800859651 |
This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer's multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as 'theater, ' the varied and multiple registers of 'sailor talk, ' and the foundational role of maritime language in the lives and works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London. The book also includes nods to James Fenimore Cooper, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Meticulous scholarly research underpins the close readings of literary texts and the scrupulously detailed biographical accounts of three major sailor-writers. The author's own lived experience as a seafarer adds a refreshingly materialist dimension to the subtle literary readings. The book represents a valuable addition to a growing scholarly and political interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor's viewpoint and listening to sailors' voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.
| Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 930 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521301060 |
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.
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| Total Pages | : 928 |
| Release | : 1925 |
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| Author | : Cody Marrs |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2019-03-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1108484034 |
This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
| Author | : Peter Rawlings |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2017-09-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351223402 |
A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.
| Author | : Brian Yothers |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 081013179X |
Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.
