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UNINA9910791302903321 |
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Autore |
Stuckey Sterling |
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Titolo |
African culture and Melville's art [[electronic resource] ] : the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick / / Sterling Stuckey |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-772298-9 |
0-19-045176-9 |
0-19-970686-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 154 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2009. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction; 1. The Tambourine in Glory; 2. Benito Cereno and Moby Dick; 3. The Hatchet-Polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano; 4. Cheer and Gloom: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on Slave Music and Dance; Appendix: Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A Narrative of Voyages and Travels |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work tells how slave music and dance are used by Melville in 'Moby-Dick' in the creation of some of his most tragic and avant-garde art. Targeting how he conceived and executed his art, we find in this volume a degree of heretofore unprobed intertexuality in his work. |
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