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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... humanity” embodied in Hawthorne as fully as in any author—of any country: “into no recorded mind has the intense feeling of the visable truth ever entered more deeply” (Correspondence 185–86). Melville had himself influenced the public ...
... human being into sudden and ambiguous psychological growth. Already in Moby-Dick he had been preoccupied with the exploration of conscious and unconscious motivations and (to echo one reviewer) moods of mind (New York Albion, 22 ...
... Human Nature, Human Life, and the Nature of Religion, especially the third part, “On the Nature 14 READING MELVILLE'S PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
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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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