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Melville and aesthetics / edited by Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn.
Van Pelt Library PS2388.A35 M45 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Aesthetics in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Summary:
- "In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. The ultimate effect of the collection, the first of its kind, is to return us to the particularities of Melville's extraordinarily varied works and to transform the subject of aesthetics into an invigorating and unpredictable source of interpretive energy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville / Samuel Otter Otter, Samuel, Geoffrey Sanborn Sanborn, Geoffrey
- Part I The Matter of Style
- Blubber: Melville's Bad Writing / Alex Calder Calder, Alex
- Melville's Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty / Theo Davis Davis, Theo
- Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion / Andrew Dubois Dubois, Andrew
- Part II Case Studies
- Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in "The Counterpane" / Christopher Looby Looby, Christopher
- Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick / Jennifer J. Baker Baker, Jennifer J.
- Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick / Laura Rigal Rigal, Laura
- Pierre's Nominal Conversions / Elizabeth Duquette Duquette, Elizabeth
- "The Silhouette of a Content": "Bartleby" and American Literary Specificity / Nancy Ruttenberg Ruttenberg, Nancy
- The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter / Robert S. Levine Levine, Robert S.
- Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man / Jennifer Greiman Greiman, Jennifer
- Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War / Peter Coviello Coviello, Peter
- Melville's Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage / Ilana Pardes Pardes, Ilana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230113794
- 0230113796
- OCLC:
- 682891244
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