Melville’s Anatomies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville’s Anatomies write by Samuel Otter. This book was released on 1999-03-05. Melville’s Anatomies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels—Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre—Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world. Otter presents Melville's works as "inside narratives" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in Typee, the flogged bodies in White-Jacket, the scrutinized heads in Moby-Dick, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of Pierre. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway. Meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work.
Melville's Anatomies
Melville's Anatomies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville's Anatomies write by Samuel Otter. This book was released on 1999. Melville's Anatomies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "What Otter has done better than most contemporary readers of Melville is to bring Melville's obsession with rhetoric and with authorship into alignment with those political issues and to capture fully the context of Melville's concerns."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans"
Melville's Anatomies
Melville's Anatomies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville's Anatomies write by Samuel Otter. This book was released on 1990. Melville's Anatomies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Melville's Bibles
Melville's Bibles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville's Bibles write by Ilana Pardes. This book was released on 2008-02-05. Melville's Bibles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory
Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory write by Brian R. Pellar. This book was released on 2017-06-15. Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory available 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.
