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After the whale

Clark Davis · 1995

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After the Whale contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s and 1890s. The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward flesh.

Book details

Year
1995
Language
English
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Editions
3
Pages
248
ISBN
9780817360719

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