Meet Melville, a purple, softly round, beyond-adorable sea creature who is off to "find a place for just me." Leaving his warm and loving mama behind, Melville the sea creature sets off for an adventure, and he knows just the kind of place he's looking for. Along the way, he gets lost (briefly), encounters sharks and other big sea creatures, and floats past a pirate ship. Melville checks out a few spots, but all fall short of his dream place...until, weary from his adventures, he finds his way back to his mama--a place that is "just right."
As I brought my biographical perspective to Melville's Pierre (and to works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, and others), I repeatedly saw disastrous ...
The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy.
Melville inaccurately identifies the sculpture as George IV and places it in the wrong location. Although the pedestal for the sculpture of George III was formally dedicated in St. George's Square in 1809, general Liverpudlian ...
The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville's works and characters, and for his family members, friends, and acquaintances. Entries on the most important topics include bibliographies.
Gilmore , Michael T. American Romanticism and the Marketplace . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1985 . Giltrow , Janet . “ Speaking Out : Travel and Structure in ... Goldberg , David Theo , ed . Anatomy of Racism Bibliography 335.
This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick,...
Melville's Reading: A Check-list of Books Owned and Borrowed
The first of a two-volume biography of Melville traces his life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of Moby-Dick.
Presents stories, poems, journal writings, and letters together with Typee, Billy Budd, and portions of four of Melville's novels. Bibliog.
His recent books include a monograph on Milan Kundera (Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham, 2015), Schelling's Practice of the Wild (SUNY 2015), The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time (SUNY 2003), ...