White Lies – Melville`s Narratives of Facts
Autor John Samsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2011
In his introduction, Samson discusses Melville's knowledge of the genre and its ideology. He then reads each novel in terms of Melville's confrontation with its sources. In each, Samson says, an unreliable narrator represents particular ideological tendencies in Melville's sources. Melville heightens and extends these tendencies, exposes the contradictions and biases within them, and ends by showing the narrator evading or denying experiences that conflict with his ideology. According to Samson, Melville sees the concept of historical progress as the basis of these biases and evasions.
In these five novels, Melville reveals the conflict between democratic, humanitarian, and individualistic principles, on the one hand, and the forces of racial superiority, religious bigotry, economic determinism, and political conservatism, on the other. Taken together, Samson asserts, these novels deconstruct the intellectual foundations of the form of historical narration endorsed by white patriarchal culture.
Scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature, specialists in the novel, and other readers of Melville will welcome Samson's provocative reinterpretation of these key works in American culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801477713
ISBN-10: 0801477719
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
ISBN-10: 0801477719
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
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Descriere
Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives of facts--Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Israel Potter--demonstrating how Melville critically rewrote the sources on which he drew, making the genre itself a subject.