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The New Cambridge Companion To Herman Melville
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Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by : Robert S. Levine
Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville written by Robert S. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by : Robert S. Levine
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville written by Robert S. Levine and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by : Robert Steven Levine
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville written by Robert Steven Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Herman Melville by : Wyn Kelley
Download or read book A Companion to Herman Melville written by Wyn Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York by : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by : Timothy Parrish
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists written by Timothy Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy by : Steven Frye
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy written by Steven Frye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels to film. Designed for scholars, teachers and general readers, and complete with a chronology and bibliography for further reading, this Companion is an essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of one of America's most celebrated living novelists.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Book Synopsis The Value of Herman Melville by : Geoffrey Sanborn
Download or read book The Value of Herman Melville written by Geoffrey Sanborn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.
Book Synopsis Herman Melville in Context by : Kevin J. Hayes
Download or read book Herman Melville in Context written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by : Kerry C. Larson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry written by Kerry C. Larson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by : Kevin J. Hayes
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Book Synopsis The New Melville Studies by : Cody Marrs
Download or read book The New Melville Studies written by Cody Marrs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by : Patrick Cheney
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe written by Patrick Cheney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. Sixteen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on Marlowe's life, texts, style, politics, religion, and classicism. The volume also considers his literary and patronage relationships and his representations of sexuality and gender and of geography and identity; his presence in modern film and theatre; and finally his influence on subsequent writers. The Companion includes a chronology of Marlowe's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York by : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Book Synopsis Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman by : Michael Jonik
Download or read book Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman written by Michael Jonik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, revisionary study of not only Herman Melville's political philosophy, but also of our own deeply inhuman condition.
