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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| Published: | Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1995. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a After the whale : |b Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick / |c Clark Davis. |
| 260 | |a Tuscaloosa, Ala. : |b University of Alabama Press, |c ©1995. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index. | ||
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b [S.l.] : |c HathiTrust Digital Library, |d 2010. |5 MiAaHDL | ||
| 538 | |a 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. |u http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |5 MiAaHDL | ||
| 583 | 1 | |a digitized |c 2010 |h HathiTrust Digital Library |l committed to preserve |2 pda |5 MiAaHDL | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: Moby-Dick and after -- Moby-Dick and the divided body -- Language and the ascetic body in Pierre and "Bartleby" -- Israel potter and the search for the hearth -- Part II: The limits of form -- Toward deception: the short fiction and the failing body -- Inverted worlds: "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man -- Part III: Reshaping the lost debate -- The fissure in the hearth: Battle pieces -- Clarel and the search for divine body -- A question of distance: the late poetry -- Part IV: An open ending -- Billy Budd and the touch of a god. | |
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 506 | |a Access limited to authorized users. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Melville, Herman, |d 1819-1891 |x Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Melville, Herman, |d 1819-1891. |t Moby Dick. |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Davis, Clark. |t After the whale. |d Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1995 |z 0817307745 |w (DLC) 94043179 |w (OCoLC)31515324 |
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