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Melville's short novels : authoritative texts, contexts, criticism / selected and edited by Dan McCall. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : Norton, (c)2002.Edition: first editionDescription: ix, 408 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393976410
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS2382.M478.M458 2002
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Contents:
Bartleby, The Scrivener -- Benito Cereno -- Billy Budd, Sailor -- "Bartleby" and "The Lawyer's Story" Johannes Dietrich Bergmann -- Bartleby : The Ascetic's Advent H. Bruce Franklin -- The Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, Chapter XVIII Amasa Delano -- [On Cannibals] Herman Melville -- [Hawthorne and Melville in Liverpool] Nathaniel Hawthorne -- From Justice Accused Robert M. Cover -- Melville's Parable of the Walls Leo Marx -- From Bartleby in Manhattan Elizabeth Hardwick -- The Reliable Narrator Dan McCall -- On Benito Cereno : Opposing Views Yvor Winters and Darrel Abel -- Epigraph to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- [Captain Delano] Frederick Busch -- [Melville] Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- [The Yankee Captain] C. L. R. James -- Whose Foot on Whose Throat? Glenn C. Altschuler -- A Re-Examination of Melville's Benito Cereno -- The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno" Allan Moore Emery -- Benito Cereno Robert Lowell -- [Mutiny and Slave Revolt] Michael Rogin -- "Benito Cereno" : Babo as Leader Richard E. Ray -- From The Plot of Billy Budd and the Politics of Interpreting It Hershel Parker -- [On the Movie Billy Budd] Paul Bergman and Michael Asinow -- Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing Trial Tom Goldstein -- [Melville and Revolution] Carolyn L. Karcher -- From Billy Budd and Melville's Philosophy of War Joyce Sparer Adler -- [Homosexuality in Billy Budd] Mervyn Cooke -- [Is Vere a Hero Robert K. Martin Jr. -- [Father and Son in Billy Budd] Ann Douglas -- [On Billy Budd] Thomas Mann -- [Melville's Lyricism] Albert Camus -- An Inside Narrative Thomas J. Scorza -- The Bible in Billy Budd Gordon Teskey -- [Compassion and Goodness] Hannah Arendt -- Billy Budd Pauline Kael -- [Departure] Newton Arvin.
Subject: Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: "Bartleby, "The Scrivener", "Billy Budd", and "Benito Cereno."
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Bartleby, The Scrivener -- Benito Cereno -- Billy Budd, Sailor -- "Bartleby" and "The Lawyer's Story" Johannes Dietrich Bergmann -- Bartleby : The Ascetic's Advent H. Bruce Franklin -- The Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, Chapter XVIII Amasa Delano -- [On Cannibals] Herman Melville -- [Hawthorne and Melville in Liverpool] Nathaniel Hawthorne -- From Justice Accused Robert M. Cover -- Melville's Parable of the Walls Leo Marx -- From Bartleby in Manhattan Elizabeth Hardwick -- The Reliable Narrator Dan McCall -- On Benito Cereno : Opposing Views Yvor Winters and Darrel Abel -- Epigraph to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- [Captain Delano] Frederick Busch -- [Melville] Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- [The Yankee Captain] C. L. R. James -- Whose Foot on Whose Throat? Glenn C. Altschuler -- A Re-Examination of Melville's Benito Cereno -- The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno" Allan Moore Emery -- Benito Cereno Robert Lowell -- [Mutiny and Slave Revolt] Michael Rogin -- "Benito Cereno" : Babo as Leader Richard E. Ray -- From The Plot of Billy Budd and the Politics of Interpreting It Hershel Parker -- [On the Movie Billy Budd] Paul Bergman and Michael Asinow -- Once Again, "Billy Budd" Is Standing Trial Tom Goldstein -- [Melville and Revolution] Carolyn L. Karcher -- From Billy Budd and Melville's Philosophy of War Joyce Sparer Adler -- [Homosexuality in Billy Budd] Mervyn Cooke -- [Is Vere a Hero Robert K. Martin Jr. -- [Father and Son in Billy Budd] Ann Douglas -- [On Billy Budd] Thomas Mann -- [Melville's Lyricism] Albert Camus -- An Inside Narrative Thomas J. Scorza -- The Bible in Billy Budd Gordon Teskey -- [Compassion and Goodness] Hannah Arendt -- Billy Budd Pauline Kael -- [Departure] Newton Arvin.

Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: "Bartleby, "The Scrivener", "Billy Budd", and "Benito Cereno."

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