Pierre Or, The Ambiguities
A Norton Critical Edition
Parámetros
- 256 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. The main characteristic of his style is probably pervasive allusion, reflecting his written sources. Melville's way of adapting what he read for his own new purposes, scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."
Compra de libros
Pierre Or, The Ambiguities, Herman Melville, Cindy Weinstein, Robert S. Levine
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- Pierre Or, The Ambiguities
- Subtítulo
- A Norton Critical Edition
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publicado en
- 2017
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0393938948
- ISBN13
- 9780393938944
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- EE.UU., Literatura americana, Siglo XIX, Crítica literaria, Gótica, Hombres
- Descripción
- Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. The main characteristic of his style is probably pervasive allusion, reflecting his written sources. Melville's way of adapting what he read for his own new purposes, scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."