3 QUOTES WITH «MELVILLE»
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Melville.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELVILLE»
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A literary classic that wasn't recognized for its merits until decades after its publication, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick tells the tale of a whaling ship and its crew, who are carried progressively further out to sea by the fiery Captain ...
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Herman
Melville: The Contemporary Reviews
This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891.
Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker, 2009
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Andrew
Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622
" In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and ...
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
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Melville: 1819-1851
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity
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Empire for Liberty:
Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
Wai-chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self.
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Melville: The Making of the Poet
Details Melville's reading of poetry and writings about poetry along with criticism of his poetic works.
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Hawthorne and
Melville: Writing a Relationship
Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies ...
Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person, 2008
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Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after ...
Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global “war on terror.”
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Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading
Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by the work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELVILLE»
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Coop Scoop: Melville starting over - Toledo Blade
At first glance, the numbers for Tim Melville seem to be negative. Mud Hens right-hander has lost twice as many games as he has won this ... «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»
Henry Schein Promotes Peter McCarthy to President, Global Animal …
MELVILLE, N.Y., July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of health care products and services to ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
Melville's 'Ten Cents' found dead - Gauteng | IOL News
Johannesburg - Melville residents were shocked after a well-known vagrant known as 'Ten Cents' was found dead on the pavement in their ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
Ward Melville Teacher Helps Rescue Swimmers From Peconic Bay …
Ward Melville High School social studies teacher Lisa Bischoff and her husband helped rescue swimmers from the Peconic Bay on Saturday ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
Review: Pulp fiction in Melville
Pulp Fiction is a unique new eatery on the Melville strip, the once-renowned student hotspot that's undergoing a culinary transformation. «Eat Out, Jul 15»
Melville United fall short after late charge against Northern League …
A late surge wasn't enough to gain Melville United any rewards in their quest for Northern League Premier Division survival on Saturday. «Waikato Times, Jul 15»
Peggi Medeiros: Our SouthCoast Heritage — With ties to New …
Everyone knows Herman Melville, even if they've never quite finished Moby-Dick (after trying three times!). Almost no one knows Richard Henry ... «SouthCoastToday.com, Jul 15»
A son's memories of Attica Riot's 'Mad Bomber'
Joshua Melville was 9 years old when the uprising occurred and at which his father, inmate Sam “The Mad Bomber” Melville, was killed. «The Daily News Online, Jul 15»
Jerry Weingart, of Melville, sent from Europe to the Pacific
In the spring of 1945, with Adolf Hitler dead and Nazi soldiers surrendering all around him 140 miles from Berlin, Army signal corpsman Jerry ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
CompuWorks Shire City Sessions: New 'music-and-more' series hits …
PITTSFIELD — The city will see Monday nights spotlighting a new free outdoor original "music-and-more" series on Melville Street called the ... «Berkshire Eagle, Jul 15»
