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Author | : Wyn Kelley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521560542 |
Download Melville's City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man, and City of God, and she goes on to demonstrate that he resisted a generalizing or totalizing representation of the city by revealing its hybrid identity and giving voice to the poor, the displaced, and the racially excluded.
Author | : John Bryant |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780873385626 |
Download Melville's Evermoving Dawn Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of analytical essays is the result of several conferences throughout 1991, the centennary of Herman Melville's death. They survey the past and present of Melville Studies and suggest directions for the future.
Author | : Brian Yothers |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1640140530 |
Download Melville's Mirrors Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
Author | : Brian R. Pellar |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319522671 |
Download Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,” the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life. After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state.
Author | : Melville Branch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367092146 |
Download Comprehensive City Planning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use and municipal administration is explored throughout. Topics include the roots of city management and planning; physical and socioeconomic views of cities; how city planning works within city government; the ties between planning and city politics; zoning and urban design; new towns; and regional planning. This work is the culmination of the author's long career in planning practice. His involvement in government, business, and academics means this book relates to a wide variety of fields. And the author writes in a clear, nontechnical style. Whether you're a city official, a professional, or a concerned citizen, you'll find this a cohesive, readable, and authoritative introduction to the field of planning.
Author | : David Faflik |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351110810 |
Download Melville and the Question of Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for "the ‘meaning’ of the characters," the "meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and "everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.
Author | : Damien B. Schlarb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0197585566 |
Download Melville's Wisdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville's work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. Damien Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture. In wisdom, which addresses questions of theology, radical scepticism, and the nature of evil, Melville finds an ethos of critical inquiry that allows him to embrace the acumen of modern analytical techniques such as higher biblical criticism, while salvaging simultaneously the spiritual authority of biblical language. Wisdom for Melville constitutes both object and analytical framework in this balancing act. Melville's Wisdom joins other works of postsecular literary studies in challenging its own discipline's constitutive secularization narrative by rethinking modern, putatively secular cultural formations in terms of their reciprocity with religious concepts and texts. Schlarb foregrounds Melville's sustained, career-spanning concern with biblical wisdom, its formal properties, and its knowledge-creating potential. By excavating this project from Melville's oeuvre, Melville's Wisdom shows how he seeks to avoid the spiritually corrosive effects of suspicious reading while celebrating truth-seeking over subversive iniquity"--
Author | : Peter Riley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198836252 |
Download Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspector, and Hart Crane the copywriter.
Author | : Wyn Kelley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119045274 |
Download A Companion to Herman Melville Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 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
Author | : Ian S. Maloney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1135489564 |
Download Melville's Monumental Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.