Author: Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108478
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
Critical Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108478
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108478
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
Omoo
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"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.
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Pierre, Or, The Ambiguities
Author: Brian Higgins
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Robert S. Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
The Fluid Text
Author: John Bryant
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068159
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The first coherent theoretical, critical, and editorial approach to the study of literary revision
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068159
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The first coherent theoretical, critical, and editorial approach to the study of literary revision
Herman Melville
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
A Political Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Jason Frank
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143888
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his workâfrom Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143888
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his workâfrom Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.
How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative process.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640141103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative process.
Herman Melville
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113056
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Presents a collection of criticism devoted to the work of American author Herman Melville.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113056
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Presents a collection of criticism devoted to the work of American author Herman Melville.
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Author: Brian Higgins
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This volume in the distinguished series contains both a sizable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship as well. Among the authors of reprinted articles are Virginia Woolf, Carl Van Doren, Van Wyck Brooks, D.H. Lawrence, and Leon Howard. In addition to a substantial introduction, there are also three newly commissioned essays--by John Wenke, David S. Reynolds, and Hershel Parker. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This volume in the distinguished series contains both a sizable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship as well. Among the authors of reprinted articles are Virginia Woolf, Carl Van Doren, Van Wyck Brooks, D.H. Lawrence, and Leon Howard. In addition to a substantial introduction, there are also three newly commissioned essays--by John Wenke, David S. Reynolds, and Hershel Parker. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR