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Item Details
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AN ARTIST IN THE RIGGING
THE EARLY WORK OF HERMAN MELVILLE |
| By: |
William B. Dillingham |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£20.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820332607 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820332604 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2008 |
| Description: |
A study of Herman Melville s early novels "Typee," "Omoo," "Mardi," "Redburn," and "White-Jacket "that reveals" "a powerful achievement in richness of texture, range of effect, and depth of characterization and persuasively demonstrates the interrelated qualities of these five novels." |
| Synopsis: |
"An Artist in the Rigging" is a study of Herman Melville's early novels--"Typee," "Omoo," "Mardi," "Redburn," and "White-Jacket." The author considers these fictions from the standpoint of thematic relationship rather than of chronological development. He shows that while the five hero-narrators are separate and distinct entities, they have much in common and can be seen as representing different facets of an emergent composite hero-from the sensitive and restless young man who leaves home to search hungrily for experience, to the wanderer immersed in a deep probing of himself and his world. The hero's thirst for psychological independence--what comes to be his overriding ambition--is never satisfied, and destruction becomes inevitable, culminating in a paradoxical "apotheosis" in which the narrator-hero achieves this independence, but only at the expense of his humanity.Dillingham persuasively demonstrates the interrelated qualities of these five novels, and in so doing he shows that the young Melville was a far greater literary artist than he gave himself credit for being. This fiction constitutes a powerful achievement in richness of texture, range of effect, and depth of characterization, as "An Artist in the Rigging" makes clear. |
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Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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