Lucchesi and The Whale

"In "Lucchesi and The Whale," with a daring that verges on recklessness, Frank Lentricchia closes the traditional gaps dividing critical practice from creative writing. One has encountered intertextuality before; this is something more adventurous: inter-genre. Only a great literary critic could pull off the fictional tricks on display here. The ambition of this remarkable work is summed up in one of the hero-narrator's Melvillean instructions: 'A word to my students: live like a no-holds-barred autobiography of yourself, hide nothing, so that you'll be free for serious writing.' This is very serious writing."--John Sutherland, University College London

Sommario

Acknowledgments

I. The Nostalgic Man in Crisis 1

II. High Blood Pleasure 17

III. Writer in Residence 35

IV. Chasing Melville 43

V. Sex and Wittgenstein 83

Info autore

Frank Lentricchia

Riassunto

A midwestern college professor finds a rationale for a life lived with literture by embarking on a quest for the secret meaning of Melville's, MOBY DICK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lentricchia, Frank Lentricchia
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.12.2000
• EAN: 9780822326540
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2654-0
• Pagine: 128
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi