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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... earlier mood had abated and he wrote of it now with at least fleeting self-mockery: for weeks the “most persuasive season” of late spring and early summer had recalled him “from certain crotchetty and over doleful chimeraes”; he was ...
... Pierre. Any such pattern Melville retrieved from his own earlier mental processes could be used as literary material. In Pierre Melville would bring together the Berkshire terrain and 8 READING MELVILLE'S PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
... earlier book—time not only for painful memories of his father's early death to surface but also for long-suppressed resentment to rise against his father for squandering his family's fortune and laying waste his 12 READING MELVILLE'S ...
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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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