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Author : Joseph G. Knapp
Release : 1971
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Tortured Synthesis; the Meaning of Melville's Clarel by : Joseph G. Knapp
Download or read book Tortured Synthesis; the Meaning of Melville's Clarel written by Joseph G. Knapp. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Potter
Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds by : William Potter
Download or read book Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds written by William Potter. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarel, an 18,000-line poem, is one of the longest examples of the faith-doubt genre that arose in Victorian times and one that has largely been neglected by Melville critics. Author William Potter argues that Melville's poem Clarel is instead a study in comparative religion - one that explores faith in the post-Darwinian age. It was written at a crossroads point in Western thought, when science, technology, nationalism, and imperialism were reshaping the world and in the process ushered in the modern age. Potter claims the poem argues that science may have altered our perception of the world, but it cannot eradicate the basic human need for faith, which is timeless and which therefore encompasses far more than the concerns of Western Christianity. In Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds, Potter examines the poem within this historical context and by so doing attempts to solve some of the issues that critics have asserted the poem presents. He reviews the burgeoning field of comparative religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes discussions of many of the theories and ideas of well-known figures of the time such as Hegel, Hume, Muller, Emerson, Wh
Author : Branka Arsic
Release : 2017-05-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Melville’s Philosophies by : Branka Arsic
Download or read book Melville’s Philosophies written by Branka Arsic. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. Melville's Philosophies recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change, and post-humanism.
Author : Brett Zimmerman
Release : 1998-01-27
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Herman Melville by : Brett Zimmerman
Download or read book Herman Melville written by Brett Zimmerman. This book was released on 1998-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville's passion for things astronomical is visible throughout his canon. Zimmerman places Melville's many astronomical citations within the thematic context of the works in which they appear and within the larger cultural and historical context of nineteenth-century studies. In addition he provides a comprehensive catalogue of every reference to astronomy, its practitioners, and related topics in Melville's works. Herman Melville: Stargazer will be of great interest to scholars and students of American literature as well as those interested in the relationship between science and literature.
Author : Herman Melville
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Poems of Herman Melville by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Poems of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes. It contains entire texts of Battle-Pieces, John Marr and Other Sailors and Timeoleon. Selected cantos from Clarel are reprinted with accompanying notes and commentary.
