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Melville's monumental imagination / / Ian S. Maloney



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Autore: Maloney Ian S. <1975, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Melville's monumental imagination / / Ian S. Maloney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.3
Soggetto topico: Description (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century
Monuments in literature
Memorials in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Melville's Monumental Mind; Chapter One Peeping into Polynesian Memorials: Ekphrastic Indifference in Travel and Typee; Chapter Two Plodding through Mardi's Mazes and Monuments: The Imaginary Voyage into Ekphrastic Hope; Chapter Three Redburn's Realistic Journey of Ekphrastic Fear; Chapter Four Frozen Figures, Fluid Forms, and Moby-Dick; Chapter Five Pierre and Israel Potter: Fragments and Forgotten Heroes in Stone and Print; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The book charts the territory of Melville's novels in order to provide a trajectory of the monumental image in one particular literary form. This feature allows the reader to gradually see the monu
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ISBN: 0-203-95921-3
1-135-48956-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464227203321
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Serie: Studies in Major Literary Authors