Melville's monumental imagination / / Ian S. Maloney

• Autore: Maloney Ian S. <1975, >
• 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Melville's monumental imagination
• ISBN: 1-135-48963-7; 0-203-95921-3; 1-135-48956-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787720603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Major Literary Authors