Melville’s AnatomiesUniversity of California Press, 1999 M03 5 - 418 páginas In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels—Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre—Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world. Otter presents Melville's works as "inside narratives" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in Typee, the flogged bodies in White-Jacket, the scrutinized heads in Moby-Dick, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of Pierre. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway. Meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work. |
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... scenes that are acted ... the desperate rage with which they fall upon their victims ; immediately tear off their head , and sip their blood out of the skull , with the most disgusting greediness , completing in this manner their ...
... scenes that are acted ... the desperate rage with which they fall upon their victims ; immediately tear off their head , and sip their blood out of the skull , with the most disgusting greediness , completing in this manner their ...
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... scene by Kory - Kory , his man Friday . The next day , the suspi- cious Tommo is kept away from the Ti , the ceremonial building , by Kory - Kory and Fayaway , although he can hear the ominous sound of ceremonial drums . Wandering ...
... scene by Kory - Kory , his man Friday . The next day , the suspi- cious Tommo is kept away from the Ti , the ceremonial building , by Kory - Kory and Fayaway , although he can hear the ominous sound of ceremonial drums . Wandering ...
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... scenes of Burney and Coulter are reduced to a stagy peep into a flesh pot . The emphasis on cannibalism at the end of Typee diverts attention from the deeper threat — that of the facial and racial vulnerability revealed in the scene of ...
... scenes of Burney and Coulter are reduced to a stagy peep into a flesh pot . The emphasis on cannibalism at the end of Typee diverts attention from the deeper threat — that of the facial and racial vulnerability revealed in the scene of ...
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... scene of plein - air tattooing , in which the Marquesan artist Karky is repairing the designs on an old man's skin : I beheld a man extended flat upon his back on the ground , and , despite the forced composure of his countenance , it ...
... scene of plein - air tattooing , in which the Marquesan artist Karky is repairing the designs on an old man's skin : I beheld a man extended flat upon his back on the ground , and , despite the forced composure of his countenance , it ...
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... heavily on previous visitors ' descriptions in order to extend the material he collected during his brief stay and to compensate for his own inexperience as a writer , the repetition of images and scenes is a feature of many 22 Losing Face.
... heavily on previous visitors ' descriptions in order to extend the material he collected during his brief stay and to compensate for his own inexperience as a writer , the repetition of images and scenes is a feature of many 22 Losing Face.
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Jumping out of Ones Skin in WhiteJacket | 50 |
SHIP STATE AND BODY | 52 |
THE SCENE OF FLOGGING IN DOUGLASS PENNINGTON AND NORTHUP | 58 |
THE ANALOGY WITH SLAVERY IN LEECH MCNALLY BROWNE AND DANA | 67 |
WHITEJACKETS EMANCIPATION | 77 |
NATURAL FEATURES AND NATIONAL CHARACTER | 174 |
THOMAS COLE AND THE VISUAL EMBRACE | 178 |
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS AND THE TASTE FOR SCENERY | 184 |
SUSAN COOPER AND THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION | 190 |
MELVILLES CLOGGED OPTICS | 193 |
Inscribed Hearts in Pierre | 208 |
THE HEART ON THE PAGE | 209 |
DONALD GRANT MITCHELLS TREATISES CONCERNING THE SENTIMENTAL AFFECTIONS | 213 |
SAILING ON | 96 |
Getting inside Heads in MobyDick | 101 |
SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON AND THE QUEST FOR CRANIAL CONTENTS | 102 |
THE LAWS OF ANATOMY IN ANTEBELLUM ETHNOLOGY | 118 |
THE ETHNOLOGICAL CRITIQUES OF DOUGLASS BROWN AND APESS | 126 |
CETOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY IN MOBYDICK | 132 |
TO LOOK AND TO KNOW | 159 |
Penetrating Eyes in Pierre | 172 |
FANNY FERNS EMOTIONAL INVESTMENTS | 227 |
THE STRANGLING DIASTOLE AND SYSTOLE OF PIERRE | 238 |
After the Anatomies | 255 |
Notes | 263 |
Bibliography | 325 |
Index | 355 |
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Página 136 - All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up the lees of things ; all truth with malice in it ; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain ; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought ; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Página 135 - All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
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Página 139 - The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down a hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake. The slanting sun playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men.
Página 40 - This incident opened my eyes to a new danger ; and I now felt convinced that in some luckless hour I should be disfigured in such .a manner as never more to have the face to return to my countrymen, even should an opportunity offer.