Melville''s Anatomies

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Otter is Associate Professor of English at the University of California! Berkeley. Klappentext "What Otter has done better than most contemporary readers of Melville is to bring Melville's obsession with rhetoric and with authorship into alignment with those political issues and to capture fully the context of Melville's concerns."-Priscilla Wald! author of Constituting Americans Zusammenfassung Features contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - "Typee", "White-Jacket", "Moby-Dick", and "Pierre-Samuel". This book delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Otter, Otter Samuel
• Assisted by: Samuel Otter (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1999
• EAN: 9780520205826
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20582-6
• No. of pages: 418
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form