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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825434203321

Titolo

Melville as poet : the art of "pulsed life" / / edited by Sanford E. Marovitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : Kent State University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-61277-707-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MarovitzSanford E

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Authors, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Pictorial Intertexts for Battle-Pieces: Melville at the National Academy of Design, 1865""; ""Recontextualizing Melville�s: Monitor Poems""; ""Melville�s Biblical Prints and Clarel""; ""Urban and Metrical Forms in Clarel""; ""Clarel in Italy, Italy in Clarel: From Poem to Poema""; ""A Picture Stamped in Memory�s Mint: John Marr and Other Sailors""; ""Connecting by Contrast: The “Art� of Timoleon, Etc.""

""A Failure to Communicate: Shelley�s “Julian and Maddalo� and Melville�s “Pausilippo�""""“Isles of Absentees�: The Form of the Archipelago in Melville�s Writing""; ""“Free Robe and Vest�: Melville�s Uncollected Verse""; ""Melville and the Poetics of Ventriloquism: Giving Voice “At the Hostelry�""; ""Literary Reprises: Rhetorical Staging and Dramatic Performance in Melville�s Prose-and-Verse Writings""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""