After the whale
Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick
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Author
Publication
1995 - University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Language
English
Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1117048M
- ISBN-100817307745
- OCLC Control Number31515324
- OCLC Control Numberafterwhalemelvil0000davi
- Library of Congress Control Number94043179
and 2 more
- Goodreads506102
- LibraryThing1792120
Classifications
- DDC813/.3
- LCCPS2387 .D39 1995
Description
After the Whale contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s and 1890s. The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward flesh.
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- After the whale: Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick
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