| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Melville and aesthetics/ edited by Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn. |
| other author: |
Sanborn, Geoffrey. |
| Published: |
New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011., |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville; S. Otter & G. Sanborn -- PART I: THE MATTER OF STYLE -- Blubber: Melville's Bad Writing; A. Calder -- Melville's Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty; T. Davis -- Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion; A. Dubois -- PART II: CASE STUDIES -- Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in 'The Counterpane'; C. Looby -- Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick; J.J. Baker -- Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick; L. Rigal -- 'Pierre's Nominal Conversions'; E. Duquette -- 'The Silhouette of a Content': 'Bartleby' and American Literary Specificity; N. Ruttenburg -- The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter; R.S. Levine -- Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man; J. Greiman -- Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War; P. Coviello -- Melville's Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage; I. Pardes. |
| Subject: |
Aesthetics in literature. - |
| Online resource: |
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230120044 |
| ISBN: |
9780230120044 (electronic bk.) |