Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative
Autor Hershel Parkeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2013
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by a lifetime of intimate working partnerships with great Melville scholars of different generations and by the author’s experience of successive phases of literary criticism. Throughout this bold book, Hershel Parker champions archival-based biography and the all-but-lost art of embodying such scholarship in literary criticism. First is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating the award-winning and comprehensive Herman Melville: A Biography. Then Parker traces six decades of the “unholy war” waged against biographical scholarship, in which critics repeatedly imposed the theory of organic unity on Melville’s disrupted life—not just on his writings—while truncating his body of work and ignoring his study of art and aesthetics. In this connection, Parker celebrates discoveries made by “divine amateurs,” before throwing open his workshop to challenge ambitious readers with research projects. This is a book for Melville fans and Parker fans, as well as for readers, writers, and would-be writers of biography.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810127098
ISBN-10: 0810127091
Pagini: 587
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810127091
Pagini: 587
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
Hershel Parker is the general editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville published by Northwestern University Press in alliance with the Newberry Library and the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. Parker is the author of the comprehensive two-volume Herman Melville: A Biography.
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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville. Next, Parker traces six decades the persistent war New Critics have waged against biographical scholarship on Melville.