The Cambridge Introduction to Herman MelvilleCambridge University Press, 8 мар. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 140 Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author. |
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Kevin J. Hayes. Kevin J. Hayes The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Chapter 1 Life Traveling from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Albany, New. Front Cover.
Kevin J. Hayes. Kevin J. Hayes The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Chapter 1 Life Traveling from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Albany, New. Front Cover.
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Kevin J. Hayes. Chapter. 1. Life. Traveling from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Albany, New York one November to spend Thanksgiving with his family, Herman Melville, at eighteen, had time to reflect on his personal situation. Born in New York ...
Kevin J. Hayes. Chapter. 1. Life. Traveling from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Albany, New York one November to spend Thanksgiving with his family, Herman Melville, at eighteen, had time to reflect on his personal situation. Born in New York ...
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... chapters , he forced readers to readjust their focus as each chapter gives way to the next . The first third of the book is an absolute tour de force . Before com- pleting the book , he lost his energy and his direction . Hurriedly ...
... chapters , he forced readers to readjust their focus as each chapter gives way to the next . The first third of the book is an absolute tour de force . Before com- pleting the book , he lost his energy and his direction . Hurriedly ...
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... also began as a headnote to a poem. At the time of his death, 29 September 1891, Billy Budd neared completion. Three decades would pass before it saw print. Chapter 2 Contexts The existential context 12 The historical context Life 11.
... also began as a headnote to a poem. At the time of his death, 29 September 1891, Billy Budd neared completion. Three decades would pass before it saw print. Chapter 2 Contexts The existential context 12 The historical context Life 11.
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... chapter of Moby- Dick, Ishmael feels compelled to explain why he goes to sea. As he does so, he gradually reveals his personality and his characteristic thought process. He is someone who examines any given subject from every possible ...
... chapter of Moby- Dick, Ishmael feels compelled to explain why he goes to sea. As he does so, he gradually reveals his personality and his characteristic thought process. He is someone who examines any given subject from every possible ...
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Стр. 53 - All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
Стр. 54 - All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Стр. 52 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And.
Стр. 72 - ... the man who, like Russia or the British Empire, declares himself a sovereign nature (in himself) amid the powers of heaven, hell, and earth.
Стр. 60 - And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.
Стр. 87 - Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah ! The cut is on the crown (Lo, John Brown), And the stabs shall heal no more. Hidden in the cap Is the anguish none can draw : So your future veils its face, Shenandoah ! But the streaming beard is shown (Weird John Brown), The meteor of the war.
Стр. 68 - I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; & if he dont attain the bottom, why, all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will.
Стр. 19 - And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life ; and this is the key to it all.