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Author: Cody Marrs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108484034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
Author: Wyn Kelley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-08-17
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 1119045274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
Author: Cody Marrs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-12-27
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0192699717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen people think about Herman Melville, they often think about experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagements with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career. In writings such as Moby-Dick, Timoleon, and Weeds and Wildings, Melville reflects on the nature, origins, and effects of beauty, and the ways in which beauty is inexorably bound up with considerations of religion, science, ecology, art, literature, and metaphysics. Melville's writing indicates that beauty is, ultimately, an experience of non-sovereignty, a felt recognition of the self's interdependence. In a series of fresh readings of Melville's works, ranging from the most to the least canonical, Marrs demonstrates how and why Melville developed this understanding of beauty, and the ways it resonates with recent scholarship on aesthetics, posthumanism, ecocriticism, materialism, and the means and methods of American literary studies. By recentring Melville's treatment of beauty and exploring its philosophical and scholarly implications, Marrs provides a new, evocative perspective on Melville as well as the broader field of American literary studies.
Author: Robert S. Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107023130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.
Author: Wyn Kelley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2022-08-29
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1119668506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this New Companion offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways. Editors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated. In addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hemispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers: A thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work Comprehensive explorations of Melville’s works, including Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and Israel Potter, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece Clarel Practical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville In-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world Two symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement A New Companion to Herman Melville provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.
Author: John Bryant
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1986-11-18
Total Pages: 944
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 25 separate articles, scholars with a wide variety of perspectives explore Melville's texts, assess the weaknesses and strengths of existing scholarship, and suggest directions for future study. Part I considers what is known of Melville's life, his travels, and his relation to New York literati. Part II summarizes each of Melville's works, surveys reception from early reviews to recent criticism, and indicates current problems. Parts 3 and 4 probe Melville's conceptions of society, language, religion, and psychology as well as his art, comedy, tragedy and aesthetics. Part 5 traces his relation to, and effect on 20th century writers, intellectuals, and popular culture. ISBN 0-313-23874-X : $85.00.
Author: Herman Melville
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 762
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0143123971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review
Author: Robert Steven Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-05-13
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521555715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
