Moby-Dick, Or, The WhaleNorthwestern University Press, 1988 - 1043 sider In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com. |
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... writing process whether or not it cre- ates actual contradictions in the text . Another cause of the textual problems lay in habits of research and composition that Melville had formed in writing his earlier books . As scholars have ...
... writing process whether or not it cre- ates actual contradictions in the text . Another cause of the textual problems lay in habits of research and composition that Melville had formed in writing his earlier books . As scholars have ...
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... writing about Shakespeare and himself and Hawthorne the man as much as he was writing about the book , and he surely had not read all of the pieces even when he finished the essay on the tenth . In the previous months , Melville had ...
... writing about Shakespeare and himself and Hawthorne the man as much as he was writing about the book , and he surely had not read all of the pieces even when he finished the essay on the tenth . In the previous months , Melville had ...
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... writing from his memories and his imagination , he needed every source he could lay hands on , for even when writing about events he had lived through he habitually relied on printed works as prompt books to remind him of things worth ...
... writing from his memories and his imagination , he needed every source he could lay hands on , for even when writing about events he had lived through he habitually relied on printed works as prompt books to remind him of things worth ...
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