Author: Robert Steven Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Robert Steven Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Robert S. Levine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
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Languages : en
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This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
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Languages : en
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This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946230X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946230X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York
Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Herman Melville in Context
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316761924
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316761924
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred Bendixen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists
Author: Timothy Parrish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
Author: Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.