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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... for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ∞ Contents Preface vii 1. Toward a Kraken Book 1 iv READING MELVILLE'S PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
... Kraken Ending 112 6. Cobbling the Harper Pierre: January–February 1852 144 7. Aftermath 175 8. Faltering Recognition 188 Works Cited 213 Index 219 This page intentionally left blank Preface Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, v RECTO ...
... Kraken edition of Pierre (HarperCollins, 1995) was, of course, designed as a nonce text, intended only to complement, certainly not to replace, the standard Northwestern-Newberry edition (1971). “Having this short version of Pierre in ...
... Kraken edition). In our 1978 essay we gave a sequential reading of the published 1852 version of the novel, even though we argued that Melville's belated decision to turn Pierre into an author had introduced major inconsistencies into ...
Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker. This page intentionally left blank 1 TOWARD A KRAKEN BOOK i Melville seems to have.
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Books I and II | 32 |
Books IIIV | 57 |
Books VIXII | 81 |
The Kraken Ending | 112 |
JanuaryFebruary 1852 | 144 |
7 Aftermath | 175 |
8 Faltering Recognition | 186 |
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