Author: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810139758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville’s writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture. The volume thus engages not only Melville reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville’s afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.
Handsomely Done
Author: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810139758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville’s writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture. The volume thus engages not only Melville reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville’s afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810139758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville’s writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture. The volume thus engages not only Melville reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville’s afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.
Melville's Folk Roots
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville's use of folklore has been slow in developing. This study focuses on Melville's immersion with and borrowing from oral traditions: both music and narrative; tall-tale humour; nautical folklore; superstition; and legend. The book also acts as a general introduction to Melville's work.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville's use of folklore has been slow in developing. This study focuses on Melville's immersion with and borrowing from oral traditions: both music and narrative; tall-tale humour; nautical folklore; superstition; and legend. The book also acts as a general introduction to Melville's work.
The Port Folio
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific
Author: John Ogilvie (LL.D.)
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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Iron and steel, D. J. Morrell. Ceramics, W. P. Blake. Glass and glass-ware, W. P. Blake. Forestry, F. P. Baker. Cotton culture, P. M. B. Young
Author: United States Commission to the Paris Exposition (1878)
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition 1867
Author: 1878 U.S. Commission to the Paris exposition
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878. Published Under Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of Congress
Author: United States. Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Publisher:
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878. Published Under Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of Congress
Author: United States. Commission to the Paris exposition, 1878
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Saturday night
Author: Saturday night
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Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Pages : 968
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Mrs. Partington's Carpet-bag of Fun
Author: Samuel Putnam Avery
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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