Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian TintKent State University Press, 1997 - Počet stran: 205 Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interest in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works of visual arts, to give body to plot and character. In carefully tracing Melville's use of the art analogy as a literary technique, Douglas Robillard shows how Melville evolved as a writer. Melville studied histories of art, lives of painters, and aesthetic treatises, went to museums and exhibitions of art works, made pilgrimages to the art centers of Europe during the 1840s and 1850s, and collected prints and illustrated books. He created narrators and central characters--Wellingborough Redburn, Ishmael, Pierre Glendinning, and Clarel--who were sensitive to the arts and capable of seeing and describing the world in painterly terms. Robillard also explores the works of the predecessors and contemporaries that influenced Melville and shows how his sense of form was instructed by design in works of art. In separate chapters Robillard deals at length with Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Clarel. In briefer discussions he looks at The Piazza Tales and the shorter poems. His extensive history of what Melville saw, responded to, and valued offers new insights into Melville's creative processes. |
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Mythological OilPaintings | 47 |
Less Erroneous Pictures | 70 |
A Strangers Head by an Unknown Hand | 99 |
Dwell on Those Etchings in the Night | 123 |
Wanderings after the Picturesque xvii | 158 |
20 | 167 |
47 | 179 |
R + 70 | 180 |
Notes | 183 |
Bibliography | 189 |
Index | 194 |
189 | 199 |
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Strana 156 - Dusked Olivet he leaves behind, And, taking now a slender wynd, Vanishes in the obscurer town. XXXV EPILOGUE IF Luther's day expand to Darwin's year, Shall that exclude the hope — foreclose the fear ? Unmoved by all the claims our times avow, The ancient Sphinx still keeps the porch of shade And comes Despair, whom not her calm may cow, And coldly on that adamantine brow Scrawls undeterred his bitter pasquinade. But Faith (who from the scrawl indignant turns), With blood warm oozing from her wounded...
Strana 73 - The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
Strana 160 - But the principal relic of faded grandeur was the ample oval of the shield-like stern-piece, intricately carved with the arms of Castile and Leon, medallioned about by groups of mythological or symbolical devices; uppermost and central of which was a dark satyr in a mask, holding his foot on the prostrate neck of a writhing figure, likewise masked.
Strana 12 - A year ago I could not understand in the slightest degree Raphael's Cartoons — now I begin to read them a little. And how did I learn to do so ? By seeing something done in quite an opposite spirit — I mean a picture of Guide's in which all the Saints, instead of that heroic simplicity and unaffected grandeur which they inherit from Raphael, had each of them both in countenance and gesture all the canting, solemn, melodramatic mawkishness of Mackenzie's father Nicholas.
Strana 79 - Ah, noble ship," the angel seemed to say, " beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm ; for lo ! the sun is breaking through ; the clouds are rolling off — serenest azure is at hand.
Strana 79 - ... a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers. But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship's tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into the Victory's plank where Nelson fell. "Ah, noble ship," the angel seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear...
Strana 98 - A gentle joyousness - a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
Strana 154 - The height, the depth — the far, the near ; Ring-bolts to pillars in vaulted lanes, And dragging Rhadamanthine chains ; These less of wizard influence lend Than some allusive chambers closed. Those wards of hush are not disposed In gibe of goblin...
Strana 10 - And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too? Yet if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light; The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right.
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