Screen LibraryHerman Melville an introduction /
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell introductions to literature ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470691762 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470693278 (electronic bk.) 0470693274 (electronic bk.) 9780470694084 (electronic bk.) 0470694084 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PS2387 |
| CLC: | I712.44 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Melville's Life -- "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo -- "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick -- "All Tender Obligations": Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different Considerations": Late Poetry -- "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd -- Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville -- Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence. |