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Author : William Braswell
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000038100
Author : Brian Yothers,Jonathan A Cook
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810134270
Visionary of the Word brings together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville’s treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fiction and poetry. The volume suggests the broad range of Melville’s religious concerns, including his engagement with the denominational divisions of American Christianity, his dialogue with transatlantic currents in nineteenth-century religious thought, his consideration of theological and philosophical questions related to the problem of evil and determinism versus free will, and his representation of the global contact among differing faiths and cultures. These essays constitute a capacious response to the many avenues through which Melville interacted with religious faith, doubt, and secularization throughout his career, advancing our understanding of Melville as a visionary interpreter of religious experience who remains resonant in our own religiously complex era.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015059241953
This comprehensive reference guide to Melville's religious allusions is an important contribution to the study of a man whom Nathaniel Hawthorne described as someone who "can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief but is too honest not to try to do one or the other." The index lists all words with religious significance that appear in any of Melville's works. Coffler (English, Suffolk U., Boston) also provides an alphabetized list of allusions in separate works, a sequential order of allusions in separate works, an index to Melville's correspondence and journals, and a glossary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Ilana Pardes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520941526
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
Author : Stanley Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0875801749
"Written over a period of almost twenty years, Clarel is Melville's last major literary work to be published before his death in 1891. Although it represents a lifetime of philosophical and theological speculation, the poem's intimidating length and complex syntax have caused Americanists and even many Melvilleans to overlook its critical role in the interpretation of Melville's thought." "In this groundbreaking analysis of Melville's major poetic work, Clarel, Goldman draws on extensive biblical and textual research, as well as on his own rabbinical training, to trace the intertextual, dialogical relationship between the poem and the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Through a close examination of Clarel within biblical, theological, and narratological contexts, Goldman demonstrates how Melville's religious outlook paradoxically combines doubt and faith, despair and hope, anger and love, seriousness and scathing irony." "The first book-length study of Clarel to appear in twenty years, Goldman's work sheds critical light on one of the most vexing questions in Melville studies, the extent of Melville's religious belief. Goldman demonstrates that Melville's theological reflection in Clarel represents "protest theism," that is, an attempt to find or to establish the limits within which faith is possible and existence endures and has meaning. The nonsectarian, nondogmatic faith proclaimed in Clarel, Goldman explains, protests and laments human fate yet also embraces renewed commitment to God." "In reading Clarel intertextually with the Bible, Goldman moves beyond setting, character, plot, and symbol - on which most critics have focused - to illuminate both the narrative voices and the theological complexity of Clarel. His reading of the poem's mosaic of biblical quotations, allusions, and glosses demonstrates the centrality of biblical literature to Clarel and to our understanding of Melville's mature theology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : William Potter
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087338797X
Clarel, an 18,000-line poem, is one of the longest examples of the faith-doubt genre that arose in Victorian times and one that has largely been neglected by Melville critics. Author William Potter argues that Melville's poem Clarel is instead a study in comparative religion - one that explores faith in the post-Darwinian age. It was written at a crossroads point in Western thought, when science, technology, nationalism, and imperialism were reshaping the world and in the process ushered in the modern age. Potter claims the poem argues that science may have altered our perception of the world, but it cannot eradicate the basic human need for faith, which is timeless and which therefore encompasses far more than the concerns of Western Christianity. In Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds, Potter examines the poem within this historical context and by so doing attempts to solve some of the issues that critics have asserted the poem presents. He reviews the burgeoning field of comparative religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes discussions of many of the theories and ideas of well-known figures of the time such as Hegel, Hume, Muller, Emerson, Wh
Author : Giles B. Gunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195142822
Essays on Melville's life & writing here make the case for his centrality both to 19th century writing in America & also to America's understanding of itself.
Author : Damien B. Schlarb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780197585566
"This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville's work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. Damien Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture. In wisdom, which addresses questions of theology, radical scepticism, and the nature of evil, Melville finds an ethos of critical inquiry that allows him to embrace the acumen of modern analytical techniques such as higher biblical criticism, while salvaging simultaneously the spiritual authority of biblical language. Wisdom for Melville constitutes both object and analytical framework in this balancing act. Melville's Wisdom joins other works of postsecular literary studies in challenging its own discipline's constitutive secularization narrative by rethinking modern, putatively secular cultural formations in terms of their reciprocity with religious concepts and texts. Schlarb foregrounds Melville's sustained, career-spanning concern with biblical wisdom, its formal properties, and its knowledge-creating potential. By excavating this project from Melville's oeuvre, Melville's Wisdom shows how he seeks to avoid the spiritually corrosive effects of suspicious reading while celebrating truth-seeking over subversive iniquity"--
Author : Lawrance Roger Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400878161
In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction of the cruelty and malice of God, consistently satirized Christian doctrine. He endeavors to show that Melville resorted to literary deceptions that could simultaneously hoodwink and satirize the point of view of his orthodox readers. This bold challenge to the conventional interpretation of Melville is brilliantly presented and fully supported by external and internal evidence in such a way as to reveal a sinister intent in all of the major narratives from Typee through Billy Budd. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Walter Donald Kring
Publisher : Pentland Press (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Novelists, American
ISBN : 1571970533
Tracing Melville's spiritual torment and growth over the course of his lifetime, Walter Donald Kring provides a fresh look at this great writer and shows how his work was influenced by his mid-life rejection and later acceptance of religion. Citing examples from famous and lesser-known works, Kring deftly draws comparisons between Melville's changing views and those expressed by his characters.
Author : Frank Troy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Reason in literature
ISBN : 1468160702
Herman Melville was a genius endowed with a remarkable capacity to detect fraud and humbug. From the composition of Moby-Dick in 1851 until his death in 1891, his writings are slyly disguised and damning exposés of the flawed assumptions and ideologies that prevailed in his day. Similarly flawed assumptions and ideologies are just as prominent today. With the powerful perception and reasoning of innate genius, Melville's writings clarify the causes behind, for example, the ideological polarization and gridlock in today's politics, the growing hostilities between religions, and the flawed ethics driving Wall Street. But he also implies a very powerful solution to these problems. His writings provide a template for thinking effectively about religion, economics, politics, philosophy, the role of corporations, and far more. This book makes clear for the first time that beneath the familiar persona of a colorful adventurer and great story-teller, Melville was also a first-rate philosopher offering valuable and practicable solutions to real-world issues.
Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810131798
Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.
Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781640140530
An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810130722
Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.
Author : Robert Steven Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052155571X
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.