Reading Melville's Pierre; Or, The AmbiguitiesLSU Press, 2007 - Počet stran: 240 Herman Melville's Pierre; or. The Ambiguities has a storied place in the history of American publishing. Melville began writing this follow-up to Moby-Dick in October 1851, thinking that it might prove even more significant than its predecessor. The 1852 publication of Pierre was catastrophic, however. Melville lost his English publisher, and American reviewers derided the book and called the author mad. InReading Melville's "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," noted Melville authorities Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker probe the daunting story behind a deeply flawed but revealing work, one that directly reflects the major crisis of Melville's authorial life. |
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... Jesus's words in Matthew 26.11) would not “always” be with them—not in modern Manhattan, where Dewey and his followers were sure that the so-called poor really lacked only artificial wants, not real necessities. With Jesus's words ...
... Jesus may have lived on earth by heavenly (or chronometrical) rules, any lesser mortal who attempts to imitate Jesus's example will fail; worldly forces and human limitations (the horological) will inevitably thwart all attempts to live ...
... Jesus taught it was, however alluring, also impracticable. The reader would learn along the way, if he did not know already, that what passed for Christianity in midcentury America, especially among socially prominent and wealthy ...
... Jesus's words to actual earthly life. Bulwer's apparent intent in Zanoni was “to depict the effects of enthusiasm upon different modifications of character.” Enthusiasm, properly understood, he maintains, is the state in which “that ...
... Jesus's difficult injunctions, while still convincing themselves they are good Christians. Wicked, too, because it deals with ways in which the confusions and evasions of nominal Christians become internalized in the earnest, would-be ...
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Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
Works Cited | 213 |
Index | 219 |
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