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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... hero of his new manuscript into an author seriously damaged the work because many parts of the extensive interpolated passages were inconsistent with his original intentions. Further study of the documentary evidence indicated that ...
... hero of the battle at Saratoga, his mother's father (after whom his own Uncle Peter was named), and he could draw upon his knowledge of the belongings of the Gansevoorts in his depiction of his hero's home. Family portraits, captured ...
... hero's background, however, Melville's main purpose in the book would be to explore the ways an explosive tragic revelation may impel an exceptional human being into sudden and ambiguous psychological growth. Already in Moby-Dick he had ...
... hero of the Boston Tea Party, later the same year. At a time when his Uncle Thomas was at the family house in Green ... hero's encounter with the young woman who is supposedly his older half-sister). Whether or not he ever heard some ...
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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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Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities Brian Higgins,Hershel Parker Náhled není k dispozici. - 2007 |