The composition of Herman Melville [[electronic resource] /] / Rick Mitchell
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Rick
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| Titolo: |
The composition of Herman Melville [[electronic resource] /] / Rick Mitchell
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| Pubblicazione: | Portland, OR, : Intellect Books, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (105 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 812.54 |
| 812/.6 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American drama |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ACT II; Preliminaries; Author Information & Dedication; Acknowledgements; Explanatory Notes; ACT I |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as ''time filled by the presence of the now''. Parallels between past and present (e.g., racism, domestic abuse, and the plight of the visionary American artist) are clearly implied, but the play also utilizes new technologies, in particular video, in order to represent the kind of dialectical history and representation promoted by Benjamin. During Melville's lifetime, and |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The composition of Herman Melville |
| ISBN: | 1-280-47666-4 |
| 9786610476664 | |
| 1-84150-829-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455806003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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