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...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1995.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23305 |
| 總結: | 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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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) |
| 格式: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| 參考書目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585179344 9780585179346 9780817393755 0817393757 0817307745 9780817307745 |