Melville S Monumental Imagination
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Melville S Monumental Imagination
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Author : Ian S. Maloney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Melville S Monumental Imagination written by Ian S. Maloney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The book charts the territory of Melville's novels in order to provide a trajectory of the monumental image in one particular literary form. This feature allows the reader to gradually see the monumental image as an important marker that sheds light into Melville's eventual abandonment of long fiction. Melville's Monumental Imagination combines literary analysis and cultural criticism for a long neglected aspect of our nation's iconic development in statuary.
Monumental Melville
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Author : Edgar A. Dryden
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Monumental Melville written by Edgar A. Dryden and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Monumental Melville emphasizes the significance of the literary to Melville and the need for close reading in understanding his work. By revealing and celebrating the form that makes Melville's poetry unique—and a logical development from the fiction—Monumental Melville makes a vital contribution to the new scholarly recognition of its value and importance.
History Abolition And The Ever Present Now In Antebellum American Writing
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Author : Jeffrey Insko
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in American Lit
Release Date : 2019-02-13
History Abolition And The Ever Present Now In Antebellum American Writing written by Jeffrey Insko and has been published by Oxford Studies in American Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary historysome, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement. Focusing on nineteenth-century writers who were impatient for social change, like those advocating for the immediate emancipation of slaves, as opposed to those planning for a gradual end to slavery, the book recovers some of the political force of romanticism. Through close readings of texts by Washington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither a reflection of present interests nor as an irretrievably distant 'other', but as a complex and open-ended interaction between the two. In place of a fixed and linear past, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing present. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls 'romantic presentism' insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience-and hence of ethics and democratic possibility.
Melville S Mirrors
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Author : Brian Yothers
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Melville S Mirrors written by Brian Yothers and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Literary Collections categories.
An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
Herman Melville
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Author : Corey Evan Thompson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-06-24
Herman Melville written by Corey Evan Thompson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.
Herman Melville
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Author : Kevin J. Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Herman Melville written by Kevin J. Hayes and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats—if not the greatest—of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved recognition for his daring stylistic innovations, but it was Moby-Dick that would win him global fame. In this new critical biography, Kevin J. Hayes surveys Melville’s major works and sheds new light on the writer’s unpredictable professional and personal life. Hayes opens the book with an exploration of the revival of interest in Melville’s work thirty years after his death, which coincided with the aftermath of World War I and the rise of modernism. He goes on to examine the composition and reception of Melville’s works, including his first two books, Typee and Omoo, and the novels, short fiction, and poetry he wrote during the forty years after the publication of Moby-Dick. Incorporating a wealth of new information about Melville’s life and the times in which he lived, the book is a concise and engaging introduction to the life of a celebrated but often misunderstood writer.
The New Melville Studies
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Author : Cody Marrs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-21
The New Melville Studies written by Cody Marrs and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Fiction categories.
This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
American Book Publishing Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with American literature categories.
The Romantic Architecture Of Herman Melville S Moby Dick
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Author : Shawn Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2001
The Romantic Architecture Of Herman Melville S Moby Dick written by Shawn Thomson and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In this study Shawn Thomson undertakes a consistent and deliberate approach to the form of the novel in an attempt to allow its elements, organization, and phenomena to answer questions about larger relationships and patterns. Thomson's approach asks: What is the position of the author in relation to the work, what in fact is a center of consciousness, and what is real in Moby-Dick?" "At the center of the approach is an examination of Ahab's enthusiasm and its parallels to Shelley's sense of the Promethean mission of the artist. Shelley exists as an animating presence, enlivening the fundamental oppositions of the novel: the vertical ascension of Ahab's drama and Ishmael's horizontal integration of feeling, thought, and experience." "Thomson explores Ahab's unyielding Romantic imagination - an imagination that will not be obstructed or overshadowed by the gross disorder and catastrophic face of nature. Ahab's passionate idealism is an extension of Shelley's powerful imagination, an obsessive energy that broadens and surpasses Classical and Christian idealism." "Thomson's line of inquiry places Shelley's Romantic ontology in the industrial world and hostile environment of Moby-Dick. Ishmael uses metaphor to create an emergent description of the world, building a knowledge of the whale and defining his perspective of the universe. Ahab shows the failings of inspiration. His being is associated with dominating towers, monumental heights of grandeur, and the mythmaking act. Thomson demonstrates how Melville tests and, ultimately, collapses Shelley's passionate idealism and constructs a new reality in its place." "Borrowing from Oliver Sacks, Shakespeare, Richard Wright, contemporary art criticism, geology, and geography, this study encompasses this eccentric American novel by building upon traditional approaches and bringing new perspectives into the discussion. Thomson blends science, aesthetics, and theory into an absorbing and full reading of Melville's art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The British National Bibliography
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Author : Arthur James Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Bibliography, National categories.