The Melville Family and Their Bible Readings
Author : afterwards ELLIS STICKNEY (Sarah)
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : afterwards ELLIS STICKNEY (Sarah)
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Ilana Pardes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520254554
"This is a splendid book, showing Ilana Pardes as a scholar-critic at the height of her powers. Distinguished and full of originality, Melville's Bibles brings into play a richly nuanced and minutely informed sense of the multiple roles of the Bible in antebellum American culture. This work is an important new understanding of the nature of Melville's major novel."—Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley "With a command of Biblical scholarship and a keen textual sensitivity, Pardes deftly analyzes the ways in which Melville incorporates Biblical language, genre, plot, character, and debate in Moby-Dick. Few critics have captured Melville's Biblical apprehensions and pretensions as well as Pardes or with her intellectual range and sympathy."—Samuel Otter, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1108484034
This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
Author : afterwards COOK BICKERSTETH (Harriet)
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1873
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Sunday school teachers
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Page : 864 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Harriet Bickersteth Cook
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Damien B. Schlarb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0197585566
"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 : William M. Thayer
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1889
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