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Author:
Maloney, Ian S., 1975- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005080771
Title:
Melville's monumental imagination / Ian S. Maloney.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
x, 166 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Technique.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Art.--Art.
Description (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
Monuments in literature.
Memorials in literature.
Sculpture in literature.
Ekphrasis.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
Contents:
Melville's monumental mind -- Peeping into Polynesian memorials : ekphrastic indifference in travel and Typee -- Plodding through Mardi's mazes and monuments : the imaginary voyage into ekphrastic hope -- Redburn and the realistic journey of ekphrastic fear -- Fast fish, fluid forms, and Moby-Dick -- Pierre and Israel Potter : fragments, fissures, and forgotten heroes in stone and print.
Series:
Studies in major literary authors
ISBN:
9780415975315
041597531X
OCLC:
(OCoLC)62281492
LCCN:
2005031192
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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