No mysteries out of ourselves : identity and textual form in the novels of Herman Melville /

In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates th...

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Tác giả chính: Bellis, Peter J.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1990.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4v31rd
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • Bodily identity: the changing shape of the physical self
  • Genealogical identity: filial repetition and rebellion
  • Textual identity: autobiography and the fiction of self-creation
  • In confidence: identity as interpretive construction.