Melville's Uses of Shakespeare's Plays
Author : Roma Rosen
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Roma Rosen
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825526
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Marginalia
ISBN :
Author : Laurence F. McNamee
Publisher :
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Corey Evan Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476621209
In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption. Temperance reformers publicly decried the evils of liquor, and America's greatest authors began to write works of temperance fiction, stories that urged Americans to refrain from imbibing. Herman Melville was born in an era when drunkenness was part of daily life for American men but came of age at a time when the temperance movement had gained social and literary momentum. This first full-length analysis of alcohol and intoxication in Melville's novels, short fiction and poetry shows how he entered the debate in the latter half of the 19th century. Throughout his work he cautions readers to avoid alcohol and consistently illustrates negative outcomes of drinking.
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1051 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472578554
The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare
Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107023130
This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.
Author : Edgar Dryden
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421430800
Originally published in 1968. Professor Dryden sees Melville's novels both as metaphysical processes and as technical forms. The novelist is not a reporter but a creator, and what he creates from his experience is his vision of truth. Herman Melville saw the function of the novelist in terms of his ability to expose the reader to truth while simultaneously protecting him from it or, in other words, to enable the reader to experience reality indirectly and, therefore, safely. In Melville's own writing, however, this function became more difficult as his nihilism deepened. He became increasingly sensitive to his own involvement in the world of lies, and when he could no longer protect himself from the truth, he could no longer transform it into fiction. Melville's struggle to maintain the distinction between art and truth was reflected in the changing forms of his novels. Dryden traces Melville's evolving metaphysical views and studies their impact on the craftsmanship of this acutely self-conscious artist from his early novels—Typee, Redburn, and White Jacket—through Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to the posthumously published Billy Budd and the closely related Benito Cereno, and he concludes that "all of Melville's narrators are in some way portraits of the artist at work." Dryden's study is a unique contribution to Melville scholarship and an important journey through the world of the novelist's vision. As such, it has significant implications for the novel as a genre and for understanding its development in America.
Author : Gwynne Blakemore Evans
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Peter Rawlings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441121072
A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets.