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UNINA9910450060003321 |
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Titolo |
New essays on Billy Budd / / edited by Donald Yannella [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-11184-6 |
1-280-15174-9 |
0-511-11604-7 |
0-511-03939-5 |
0-511-14785-6 |
0-511-32571-1 |
0-511-61374-1 |
0-511-05259-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sea stories, American - History and criticism |
Executions and executioners in literature |
Impressment in literature |
Sailors in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Billy Budd and American labor unrest : the case for striking back / Larry J. Reynolds -- Religion, myth, and meaning in the art of Billy Budd, Sailor / Gail Coffler -- Old man Melville : the rose and the cross / Robert Milder -- Melville's indirection : Billy Budd, the genetic text, and "the deadly space between" / John Wenke. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work. Areas investigated include nineteenth-century political and social dynamics and the literary response they provoked, as well as the relevance of mythology and the histories of classical world and Judaeo-Christian civilization to |
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