Melvilles Allusions To Religion

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Allusions to Religion written by and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference guide to Melville's religious allusions is an important contribution to the study of a man whom Nathaniel Hawthorne described as someone who "can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief but is too honest not to try to do one or the other." The index lists all words with religious significance that appear in any of Melville's works. Coffler (English, Suffolk U., Boston) also provides an alphabetized list of allusions in separate works, a sequential order of allusions in separate works, an index to Melville's correspondence and journals, and a glossary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313246262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Classical Allusions written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.

Author : William Braswell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Religious Thought written by William Braswell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810109070
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarel written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos of almost 18,000 lines, about a naïve American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions. But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville's inner life. Most strikingly, it is argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville's friend Hawthorne. Based on the only edition published during Melville's lifetime, this scholarly edition adopts thirty-nine corrections from a copy marked by Melville and incorporates 154 emendations by the present editors, an also includes a section of related documents and extensive discussions. This scholarly edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030783171X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.

Author : Calum Carmichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422950
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature written by Calum Carmichael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

Author : James King Hewison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Covenanters written by James King Hewison and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Publisher : Sicpress.com
ISBN 13 : 9780615795942
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Mocha Dick written by Jeremiah N. Reynolds and published by Sicpress.com. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.

Author : R.W.B. Lewis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621950X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Adam written by R.W.B. Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

Author : Nathalia Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville's Use of the Bible written by Nathalia Wright and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: