Tag: Melville

Free Download How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon by David Shields
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 9798990159136 | True EPUB | 152 pages | 0.3 MB
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current "crisis" in "nonfiction"-journalism- media-"truthiness." If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what’s perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Surkov (performance-artist-turned-Putin-strategist), et al. have quite consciously created-are all still quite consciously creating on a day-by-day basis-a universe in which nothing is true and therefore public discourse is, in effect, over.

Free Download Gothic Melville (Gothic Literary Studies) edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Monika Elbert
English | December 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1837721475 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.4 MB
The first book to explore Herman Melville as a Gothic writer.

Free Download Mary K Bercaw Edwards, "Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works"
English | ISBN: 0873389786 | 2009 | 252 pages | PDF | 4 MB
At the age of twenty-one, Herman Melville signed on the whaleship Acushnet as a common seaman and sailed from Massachusetts to the South Pacific. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and spent a month ashore on this reputed "cannibal island." He departed as crew of another whaleship but was put ashore in the heavily missionized Tahitian islands after participating in a bloodless mutiny. Eventually making his way to Hawaii, he joined the crew of the American frigate United States and finally reached Boston in October 1844 after four years at sea. By the time he sat down to write his first book, Melville had been recounting tales of these experiences orally for four years. The spoken elements of the overlapping discourses involving sailors, cannibals, and missionaries are essential to his first six books. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards investigates the interplay between spoken sources and written narratives. She closely examines how Melville altered original stories, and she questions his truthfulness about his experiences. Bercaw Edwards also explores the synergistic blend of the oral and written worlds of seafaring and the South Pacific and provides an analysis of Melville’s development as a writer. It is a study of the aesthetic, ethical, linguistic, and cultural implications of Melville’s borrowing. Cannibal Old Me is an excellent contribution to Melville scholarship, challenging long-held assumptions regarding his early works. Scholars as well as students will welcome it as an indispensable addition to the study of nineteenth-century literature and maritime history.

Free Download Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris by Ginette Vincendreau
English | January 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0851709508, 0851709494 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 11.7 MB
One of the most brilliant filmmakers in post-war France and world cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville now enjoys renewed popularity. His "Bob le flambeur" (with its street-wise Montmartre and Pigalle settings, its cool jazz score and its good-humoured tale of gangster clans) not only inspired the New Wave but has attained unassailable cult status. Other iconic gangster films such as "Le Doulos," "Le Samourai" and "Le Cercle rouge" are now hailed as masterpieces by latter-day legends John Woo and Quentin Tarantino. Meanwhile, with "Le Silence de la mer" and "L’Armee des ombres," Melville also contributed two of the greatest films about the Resistance during World War II.

Free Download Tom Nurmi, "Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology "
English | ISBN: 081394502X | 2020 | 294 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB
What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological." By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be understood as a proto-ecologist who innovatively engages with the entanglement of human and nonhuman realms.

Free Download Cody Marrs, "Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things "
English | ISBN: 0192871722 | 2023 | 168 pages | PDF | 2 MB
When people think about Herman Melville, they often think about experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville’s engagements with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville’s philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career. In writings such as Moby-Dick, Timoleon, and Weeds and Wildings, Melville reflects on the nature, origins, and effects of beauty, and the ways in which beauty is inexorably bound up with considerations of religion, science, ecology, art, literature, and metaphysics. Melville’s writing indicates that beauty is, ultimately, an experience of non-sovereignty, a felt recognition of the self’s interdependence.

Free Download Kenneth Dauber, "The Logic of Sentiment: Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville"
English | ISBN: 1501357379 | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 1289 KB
The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, "What hold us together?" Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism-understood as the problem of people’s otherness to each other-that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of "ordinary language" criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously-Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The House of the Seven Gables, and Pierre.

Free Download Kevin J. Hayes, "The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)"
English | 2007 | pages: 154 | ISBN: 0521854806, 0521671043 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville’s masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville’s life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville’s individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville’s writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville’s late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville’s life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.