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After the whale : Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick /
After the Whale contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s and 1890s. The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special empha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | After the Whale contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s and 1890s. The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward flesh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585179344 9780585179346 9780817393755 0817393757 |