'Whole Oceans Away' - Melville and the Pacific

Informationen zum Autor Jill Barnum was professor of literature and writing and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. She published Melville Sea Dictionary: A Glossed Concordance and Analysis of the Sea Language in the Nautical Novels of Herman Melville (1982) and Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes (2001). Christopher Sten, professor of English at George Washington University, is the author of The Weaver-God, He Weaves (Kent State University Press, 1996) and editor of Savage Eye: Melville and the Visual Arts (Kent State University Press, 1991). Klappentext Herman Melville had a lifelong fascination with the Pacific and with the diverse island cultures that dotted this vast ocean. The essays in this collection articulate the intersection of Western and Pacific perspectives in Melville's work, from his early writings to Western modes of thought in relation to race and national identity. Zusammenfassung Herman Melville had a lifelong fascination with the Pacific and with the diverse island cultures that dotted this vast ocean. The essays in this collection articulate the intersection of Western and Pacific perspectives in Melville's work! from his early writings to Western modes of thought in relation to race and national identity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jill (EDT)/ Kelley Barnum, The Kent State University Press
• Con la collaborazione di: Jill Barnum (Editore), Wyn Kelley (Editore), Christopher Sten (Editore)
• Editore: Kent State Univ Pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.01.2008
• EAN: 9780873388931
• ISBN: 978-0-87338-893-1
• Pagine: 350
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese