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Item Details
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CLAREL
A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE IN THE HOLY LAND |
| By: |
Herman Melville, Professor Hershel Parker Comp (Editor), Harrison Hayford (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£22.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810125404 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810125407 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| Synopsis: |
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 and almost 18,000 lines about a naive 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 Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Clarel "is one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville s poem to new life." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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