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Author : Richard S. Moore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490895
Author : Richard S. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9062037348
Author : Samuel Otter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520918010
In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels—Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre—Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world. Otter presents Melville's works as "inside narratives" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in Typee, the flogged bodies in White-Jacket, the scrutinized heads in Moby-Dick, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of Pierre. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway. Meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work.
Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822382645
Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organizing principles and self-understanding of the field of American Studies. Originally published as a special issue of boundary 2, the essays gathered here discuss writers as diverse as Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Melville, W. D. Howells, Henry James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Mark Twain, plus the historical figure John Brown. Two major sections devoted to the theory of romance and to cultural-historical analyses emphasize the political perspective of "New Americanist" literary and cultural study. Contributors. William E. Cain, Wai-chee Dimock, Howard Horwitz, Gregory S. Jay, Steven Mailloux, John McWilliams, Susan Mizruchi, Donald E. Pease, Ivy Schweitzer, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Robert Weimann
Author : Robert Zoellner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520023390
Author : Michael McLoughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135885304
This book contextualises and details Herman Melville's artistic career and outlines the relationship between Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael McLoughlin divides Melville's professional career as a novelist into two major phases corresponding to the growth and shift in his art. In the developmental phase, from 1845 to 1850, Melville wrote his five Transcendental novels of the sea, in which he defended self-reliance, attacked conformity, and learned to employ Transcendental symbols of increasing complexity. This phase culminates in Moby-Dick , with its remarkable matching of Transcendental idealism with tragic drama, influenced by Hawthorne. After 1851, Melville endeavoured to find new ways to express himself and to re-envision human experience philosophically. In this period of transition, Melville wrote anti-Transcendental fiction attacking self-reliance as well as conformity and substituting fatalism for Emersonian optimism. According to McLoughlin, Moby-Dick represents an important transitional moment in Herman Melville's art, dramatically altering tendencies inherent in the novels from Typee onward; in contrast to Melville's blithely exciting and largely optimistic first six novels of the sea, Melville's later works - beginning with his pivotal epic Moby-Dick - assume a much darker and increasingly anti-Transcendental philosophical position.
Author : Paul Grimstad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199874071
The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism.
Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00080091
Author : Robert E. Abrams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830648
In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens of maps, ideas of nature, styles of painting, and other cultural frameworks that can contradict one another or change dramatically over time. Abrams contends that mid-century American writers ranging from Henry D. Thoreau to Margaret Fuller are especially sensitive to instability of sense of place across the span of American history, and that they are ultimately haunted by an underlying placelessness. Many books have explored the variety of aesthetic conventions and ideas that have influenced the American imagination of landscape, but this study introduces the idea of placeless into the discussion, and suggests that it has far-reaching consequences.
Author : John Jantsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119579779
A guide for creating a deeper relationship with the entrepreneurial journey The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others. Each of The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur meditations is followed by a reflection and a challenging question from John Jantsch. He draws on his lifetime of experience as a successful coach for small business and startup leaders to offer an entrepreneurial context. Jantsch shows how entrepreneurs can learn to trust their ideas and overcome the doubt and fear of everyday challenges. The book contains: A unique guide to meditations, especially designed for entrepreneurs A range of topics such as self-awareness, trust, creativity, resilience, failure, growth, freedom, love, integrity, and passion An inspirational meditation for each day of the year. . . including leap year Reflections from John Jantsch, small business marketing expert and the author of the popular book Duct Tape Marketing Written for entrepreneurs, as well anyone seeking to find a deeper meaning in their work and life, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur is a practical handbook for anyone seeking to embrace the practice of self-trust.
Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : English language
ISBN : WISC:89001872977
Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017612252
Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433069256901
Author : Quinn, Justin
Publisher : Karolinum Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024619965
The first edition of this book, published in 2002, aimed to complete the study material for our students of American literature. The third edition strives to emphasize this aspect while expanding and deepening the general overview as well as including other important movements and authors. The exposition of the 20th century underwent major changes: the scholars added new texts while supplementing the older ones to comply with the development of critical and academic approaches. The book is written to the point and in comprehensible language, corresponding with the ambition to present and explain the development of one of the most interesting world literatures to university students.
Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501745669
The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance illuminates the process by which the cultural legacy of European Romanticism was assimilated by and transformed in the literature of mid-nineteenth-century America. Leon Chai traces the development various governing concepts or tendencies from their genesis in British, French, and German Romantic traditions through their subsequent appropriation by such American writers as Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Among the topics he addresses are the shift from allegory to symbolism; selected trends in Romantic science; the secularization of religion; the emergence of a historical consciousness and a philosophy of history; pantheism; the relation of subjectivity to objectivity in Romantic philosophy; and Romantic poets.