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.
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