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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... Sea romance with political, philosophical, and social allegory, he had wanted to write something still more ambitious, being psychologically driven not to duplicate anything he had already done. Only 5 TOWARD A KRAKEN BOOK.
... psychological and metaphysical exploration, encyclopedic cetological lore with elements of Gothic romance and Shakespearean tragedy. In doing so, he employed a uniquely rich prose influenced by a range of authors including the ...
... 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 November 1851). (Almost all the known ...
... psychological, or aesthetic, he seized from Tom's departure an easy subject for his fourth book, his own first ... psychologically dangerous—terrain in which he might confront not only conscious but also suppressed memories of his father ...
... psychological imperatives of which he is catastrophically unaware. vi Important as Hawthorne and British fiction writers of the previous sixty years or so were to Pierre, Shakespeare saturated it even more. Referring to his new book on ...
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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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