Author: Harry Levin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1958.
The Power of Blackness
Author: Harry Levin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1958.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1958.
The power of blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, N.Y., A.A.Knopf, 1964 bibl., 2 copies
Author: Harry Levin
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Power of Blackness
Author: Harry Levin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Power of Blackness: Poe - Hawthorne - Melville
Author: Sprachdidaktisches Zentrum. Freiburg, Breisgau
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Author: Christopher Freeburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Freeburg analyzes how Melville grapples with realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America by examining 'blackness' in Melville's fiction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Freeburg analyzes how Melville grapples with realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America by examining 'blackness' in Melville's fiction.
On Melville
Author: Louis J. Budd
Publisher: Best from American Literature
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“Many of the selections have become standard studies and interpretations: Sherman Paul on “The Town-Ho’s Story,’ R. W. B. Lewis on Melville and Homer, Merton Sealts on Melville’s “I and My Chimney,’ to name only a few. The quality of the selections is very high indeed, as was true of earlier volumes in this series. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice
Publisher: Best from American Literature
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“Many of the selections have become standard studies and interpretations: Sherman Paul on “The Town-Ho’s Story,’ R. W. B. Lewis on Melville and Homer, Merton Sealts on Melville’s “I and My Chimney,’ to name only a few. The quality of the selections is very high indeed, as was true of earlier volumes in this series. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice
Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317146867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their decisions about compositional practice, especially as it relates to public performance and the exigencies of publication. Engel's discussion of the narrative structure and emblematic aspects of Melville's Piazza Tales and Poe's "The Raven" serve as case studies that demonstrate the authors' debt to the past. Focusing principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus, Engel avoids engaging in a simple account of what these authors read and incorporated into their own writings. Instead, through an examination of their predisposition toward an earlier model of pattern recognition, he offers fresh insight into the writers' understandings of mourning and loss, their use of allegory, and what they gained from their use of pseudonyms.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317146867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their decisions about compositional practice, especially as it relates to public performance and the exigencies of publication. Engel's discussion of the narrative structure and emblematic aspects of Melville's Piazza Tales and Poe's "The Raven" serve as case studies that demonstrate the authors' debt to the past. Focusing principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus, Engel avoids engaging in a simple account of what these authors read and incorporated into their own writings. Instead, through an examination of their predisposition toward an earlier model of pattern recognition, he offers fresh insight into the writers' understandings of mourning and loss, their use of allegory, and what they gained from their use of pseudonyms.
Gothic America
Author: Teresa A. Goddu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231108171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231108171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
The Tragic Black Buck
Author: Carlyle Van Thompson
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820462066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincingly and boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream"--
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820462066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. Fitzgerald convincingly and boldly shows how racial passing by light-skinned Black individuals becomes the most fascinating literary trope associated with democracy and the enduring desire for the American Dream"--
Playing in the Dark
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307388638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307388638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.