New Essays on Billy Budd

Informationen zum Autor Donald Yannella is the author of American Prose to 1820 (1979)! Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982)! The Perfect Prodigy Melville on the Birth of Malcolm (1986) and Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter (1992). Klappentext A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville's Billy Budd. Zusammenfassung Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death! and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Donald Yannella; 1. Melville's indirection: Billy Budd, the Genetic text, and 'the deadly space between' John Wenke; 2. Billy Budd and American labour unrest: the case for striking back Larry J. Reynolds; 3. Religion, myth and meaning in the art of Billy Budd, Sailor Gail Coffler; 4. Old man Melville: the rose and the cross R. Milder; Selected Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald Yannella
• Mitarbeit: Yannella Donald (Herausgeber), Emory Elliot (Herausgeber), Donald Yannella (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521417785
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41778-5
• Seiten: 168
• Serie: American Novel (Hardcover)
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft