The Value of Herman Melville

ISBN-13: 9781108452915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 150 str.

Geoffrey Sanborn

Opis

This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.

Recenzje

'Sanborn's book … is an impassioned, sometimes hilarious work and a deeply pedagogical one. He is modeling for us a way of using Melville, of activating the process of thinking about his generative objects. The value comes, finally, in cultivating further connections for ourselves and also in the readiness for new perceptions when confronted with anything as puzzling or difficult as Melville's own texts.' Elisa Tamarkin, Leviathan

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Living the experience; 2. He knew not what it would become; 3. Grief's fire; 4. Susceptibilities; 5. Disportings; 6. A new way of being happy; 7. The meaning of Moby-Dick; 8. As if; 9. Camp Melville; 10. Courting surprise; 11. All things trying; 12. The non-communicating central self.