G. Sanborn,
S. Otter
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2011
9781349295562
Melville and Aesthetics
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349295562
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349295562
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville; S.Otter & G.Sanborn PART I: THE MATTER OF STYLE Blubber: Melville's Bad Writing; A.Calder Melville's Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty; T.Davis Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion; A.Dubois PART II: CASE STUDIES Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in 'The Counterpane'; C.Looby Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick; J.J.Baker Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick; L.Rigal 'Pierre's Nominal Conversions'; E.Duquette 'The Silhouette of a Content': 'Bartleby' and American Literary Specificity; N.Ruttenburg The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter; R.S.Levine Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man; J.Greiman Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War; P.Coviello Melville's Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage; I.Pardes