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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville
Michael Paul RoginSee Melville, Herman Moredock, Colonel, 245-7 Morewood, Sarah, 111, 183-4, 186 Morgan, Edmund, 127 Murray, Henry, 168 Nationalism, 20, 22, 39-40, 71, 73 -4, 102-3, 106, ... See Melville, Herman Pierce, Franklin, 148, 219-20, 255 Pierre.
The Poems of Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleIn this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes.
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine
Robert Milder31. Quoted in Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 2:605. 32. Miller 321. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville: A Biography ( New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996), 509; Garner, Civil War World of Herman Melville ...
Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture
Brian JarvisCited in Michael Paul Rogin, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1985), p. 265. 5. Herman Melville, White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics: ...
Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires: From Herman Melville ...
Bernard A. DrewFrom Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith Bernard A. Drew. About. the. Author. B. ernard A. Drew wallpapered two servants' rooms at the Bryant Homestead as a summer laborer; studied “The Novel of Violence” in English class with Robert ...
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...
Preview1 Every scholar of Melville is greatly indebted to his principal modern biographers, Hershel Parker and Laurie Robertson—Lorant, and to the editors of the Northwestern—Newberry editions of Melville's collected works, which provide standard ...
Herman Melville: Moby Dick and Other Works
Raychel Haugrud Reiff"A biography of writer Herman Melville that describes his era, his major works--especially Moby Dick, his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.
The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals: Poems in the Voice of ...
Laurie Robertson-LorantPoems in the Voice of Herman Melville Laurie Robertson-Lorant. Cover Art: Herman Melville, 1846. Painting by Asa W. Twitchell.- Courtesy of the Berkshire Athenaeum. American whaling ships at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, early 1840s.
Melville: A Biography
Laurie Robertson-LorantDrawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer.
Melville’s Anatomies
Samuel OtterSee, for example, John Sullivan Dwight's review from the Brook Farm Harbinger and the anonymous review in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, both reprinted in Milton Stern, Critical Essays on Herman Melville's “Typee,” 22–27 and 35–37 ...
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Preview2. HESTER BLUM ... royal ship, rather than his original continental one. In an attempt to assimilate to the man-of-war's crew, Israel calls himself “Peter Perkins,” maintopman, and jumps from mess (a 22 Melville and Oceanic Studies Hester Blum.
Journal of the Short Story in English
More editionsJOURNAL OF THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH N°36 TABLE OF CONTENTS Matthew GUILLEN. - Melville's Wall Street: It Speaks for Itself Jane DESMARAIS. - Preferring not to: The Paradox of Passive Resistance in Herman Melville's ...
White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts
John SamsonJohn Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision ( Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden, Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by accepting guilt.
Selected tales and poems
Herman MelvillePoems on the Civil War accompany such stories as Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Billy Budd
The Columbia History of the American Novel
Emory ElliottExamines the literary history of the American novel, and looks at the contributions of such writers as Herman Melville, Toni, Morrison, and Saul Bellow
A Companion to Herman Melville
PreviewMarriage is, I would argue, the privatized theater in which dramas of national security are made comprehensible to a radically de-publicized citizenry. Paradoxical claims that gay entitlement 198 Christopher Castiglia has gone so far as to lead ...
An Undefeated Mind
Ee Heok KuaOther creative people like Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Schumann, and authors like Virginia Woolf, Herman Melville, Scotts Fitzgerald and Hemingway also had mental illness. I have read the case history of Van Gogh who was ...
A Companion to Herman Melville
Preview... the Universal Republicans of Cloots's vision serves to elevate them to participatory citizenship, a status not automatically associated with working seamen until the American reform movements 114 Hester Blum of the mid- nineteenth century ...
Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
Douglas RobillardMelville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
Fiskadoro
Denis JohnsonHailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, ...
Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from ...
Shari GoldbergDevelops an account of testimony and the ethics of witnessing through readings of nineteenth-century American literary texts, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James.
Moby Dick and the Whaling Industry of the 19th Century
Graham FaiellaTraces the process and influences behind the writing of Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick," which was published in the 1850s and based on the author's own experience at sea.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of ...
Douglas Alan WalrathFrom the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison ...
Notations of Herman Hertzberger
Herman van BergeijkAnyone at all familiar with the architectural work of Herman Hertzberger (b. 1932) knows that underlying his designs is an extensive set of ideas and references.
Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from ...
PreviewCultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present A. Pinn, C. Levander, Michael O. Emerson. ———. A TexasMexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,1976. Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville: A ...
Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, ...
David FarrierThis book considers the work of four Western visitors to the Pacific—Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellis, Herman Melville, and Jack London—and the consequences for the written text and the experience of cross-cultural encounter when ...
Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick
Lauren BeckerMany scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
Jerry Herman: The Lyrics
Jerry HermanAll Rights Reserved Used By Permission MILK AND HONEY Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman All Songs ©1961 (Renewed)Jerry Herman All Rights Controlled byJerryco Music Co. Exclusive Agent: Edwin H.Morris & Company, A Division of ...
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