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Melville and Aesthetics
About this book
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
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Yes, you can access Melville and Aesthetics by G. Sanborn, S. Otter, G. Sanborn,S. Otter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literature General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville
- 1 Blubber: Melvilleās Bad Writing
- 2 Melvilleās Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty
- 3 Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion
- 4 Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in āThe Counterpaneā
- 5 Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick
- 6 Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick
- 7 Pierreās Nominal Conversions
- 8 āThe Silhouette of a Contentā: āBartlebyā and American Literary Specificity
- 9 The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter
- 10 Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man
- 11 Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War
- 12 Melvilleās Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index