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Melville's Monumental Imagination.

Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not bee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maloney, Ian S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Studies in major literary authors.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Melville's Monumental Mind; Chapter One Peeping into Polynesian Memorials: Ekphrastic Indifference in Travel and Typee; Chapter Two Plodding through Mardi's Mazes and Monuments: The Imaginary Voyage into Ekphrastic Hope; Chapter Three Redburn's Realistic Journey of Ekphrastic Fear; Chapter Four Frozen Figures, Fluid Forms, and Moby-Dick; Chapter Five Pierre and Israel Potter: Fragments and Forgotten Heroes in Stone and Print; Bibliography; Index.