New essays on Billy Budd
"Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick, and it is regularly taught in literature courses of all kinds. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here investigate Billy Budd in...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
American novel. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31928249*spi |
| Sumario: | "Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick, and it is regularly taught in literature courses of all kinds. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here investigate Billy Budd in the context of nineteenth-century political and social dynamics and the literary response they provoked, as well as the relevance of mythology and the histories of the classical world and Judaeo-Christian civilization to Melville's book. Also examined are Melville's later writing, including the late poetry; the text's development; and its ambiguities. The collection will prove an invaluable resource for students of this major American writer."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xiii, 151 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 145-147) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780511039393 9780521417785 9780521428293 9780511037351 9780511116049 9780511613746 |
