The value of Herman Melville /

In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal provider, a writer who wants more than anything else to supply us with the means of enriching our experienc...

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Tác giả chính: Sanborn, Geoffrey (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Bản thảo Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Tóm tắt:In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal provider, a writer who wants more than anything else to supply us with the means of enriching our experiences. In twelve brief chapters, Sanborn examines the distinctive qualities of Melville's style--its dynamism, its improvisatoriness, its intimacy with remembered or imagined events--and shows how those qualities, once they have become a part of our equipment for living, enable us to sink deeper roots into the world. Ranging across his career, but focusing in particular on Moby-Dick, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and Billy Budd, Sanborn shows us a Melville who is animating rather than overawing, who encourages us to bring more of ourselves to the present and to care more about the life that we share with others--back cover.
Mô tả vật lý:161 pages ; 23 cm.
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-156) and index.
số ISBN:9781108471442
1108471447
9781108452915
1108452914
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