African culture and Melville's art [[electronic resource] ] : the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick / / Sterling Stuckey
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 154 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Originally published: 2009. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | African culture and Melville's art |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772298-9 |
| 0-19-045176-9 | |
| 0-19-970686-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812508003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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