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Composition of Herman Melville
Year: 2002 Publisher: Bristol Intellect

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Billy Budd : opera in two acts
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Year: 1993 Publisher: Antwerpen Vlaamse Opera

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Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory
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ISBN: 9783319522678 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,” the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life. After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state. .


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Recasting American and Persian Literatures : Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch
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ISBN: 9783319404691 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. .


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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge : Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
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ISBN: 9783319944692 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.


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Celebrity authorship and afterlives in English and American literature
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ISBN: 9781137558688 9781137558671 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan

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This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.


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Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland : The Emotional Worlds of James Melville, 1556-1614
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ISBN: 9783031157370 9783031157363 9783031157387 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual's life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to explore the emotional world and range of experiences of an individual, offering the chance for a more rounded analysis of emotional experiences and language than has ever been offered for Scotland at the time. This book contributes a crucial new geographical and cultural context to the expanding world of the history of emotions in the early modern period. John McCallum is Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. .


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ISBN: 9780262524810 9780854881604 0854881603 0262524813 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Whitechapel,

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color [perceived attribute] --- philosophy of art --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Cash, Johnny --- Halley, Peter --- Vasarely, Victor --- Truitt, Anne --- Ono, Yoko --- Léger, Fernand --- Itten, Johannes --- Rothko, Mark --- Newman, Barnett --- Cruz-Diez, Carlos --- Melville, Herman --- Koolhaas, Rem --- Riley, Bridget --- Moreau, Gustave --- Corbusier, Le --- Shonibare, Yinka --- Ozenfant, Amédée --- Brusatin, Manlio --- Balla, Giacomo --- Smith, Melanie --- Denis, Maurice --- Marden, Brice --- Ruskin, John --- Durham, Jimmie --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig J.J. --- Judd, Donald --- Spengler, Oswald --- Buren, Daniel --- Gleizes, Albert --- Smithson, Robert --- Blanc, Charles-Alexandre-Philippe-Auguste --- Boccioni, Umberto --- Jung, Carl Gustav --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Bell, Clive --- Reis, Pedro Cabrita --- Michaux, Henri --- Brakhage, Stan --- Olitski, Jules --- Delaunay, Robert --- Stokes, Adrian --- Welling, James --- Matisse, Henri --- Kandinsky, Vasili Vassileevich --- Manzoni, Piero --- Metzinger, Jean --- Rimbaud, Arthur --- Lévi-Strauss, Claude --- Baudelaire, Charles --- Marcos [Subcomandante Insurgente] --- Kundera, Milan --- Gabo, Naum --- Fry, Roger Eliot --- Albers, Josef --- Stockholder, Jessica --- Batchelor, David --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Frankenthaler, Helen --- Deleuze, Gilles --- Kelly, Ellsworth --- Reed, David --- Nordau, Max --- Eco, Umberto --- Rodtschenko, Alexander Michajlowitsch --- Delaunay, Sonia --- Auster, Paul --- Carrà, Carlo --- Gass, William H. --- Huysmans, Joris-Karl --- Severini, Gino --- Huxley, Aldous --- Whiteread, Rachel --- Doesburg, van, Theo --- Eisenstein, Sergei M. --- Gogh, van, Vincent --- Noland, Kenneth --- Baudrillard, Jean --- Tarantino, Quentin --- Rilke, Rainer Maria --- Kelley, Mike --- Milhazes, Beatriz --- Benjamin, Walter --- Jarman, Derek --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Signac, Paul --- Hiller, Susan --- Richter, Gerhard --- Allais, Alphonse --- Barthes, Roland --- Mondriaan, Piet --- Klein, Yves --- Morris, Robert --- Calvino, Italo --- Gauguin, Paul --- Klee, Paul --- Reinhardt, Ad --- Kristeva, Julia --- Malevitsj, Kasimir --- Derrida, Jacques --- Bochner, Mel --- Berenson, Bernard --- Dean, Tacita --- Russolo, Luigi --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Color in art --- Color (Philosophy) --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- kleur --- kleurtheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Adorno Theodor --- Albers Josef --- Barthes Roland --- Baudelaire Charles --- Baudrillard Jean --- Benjamin Walter --- Blanc Charles --- Birren Faber --- Bochner Mel --- Brik Osip --- Brusatin Manlio --- Buren Daniel --- Le Corbusier --- Delaunay Robert --- Delaunay Sonia --- Denis Maurice --- van Doesburg Theo --- Durham Jimmie --- de Duve Thierry --- Eco Umberto --- Frankenthaler Helen --- Gauguin Paul --- Halley Peter --- Huysmans Joris-Karl --- Itten Johannes --- Kandinsky Wassily --- Kelley Mike --- Klee Paul --- Klein Yves --- Kristeva Julia --- Lévi-Strauss Claude --- Lichtenstein Jacqueline --- Magnetic Fields --- Malevich Kazimir --- Manzoni Piero --- Mondriaan Piet --- Newman Barnett --- Noland Kenneth --- Oiticica Hélio --- Olitski Jules --- Reinhardt Ad --- Richter Gerhard --- Riley Bridget --- Rilke Rainer Maria --- Rothko Mark --- Ruskin John --- Shonibare Yinka --- Signac Paul --- van Gogh Vincent --- Wittgenstein Ludwig --- 7.017 --- Color in art. --- Art, Modern. --- Kunst ; optische effecten, perspectief, illusie --- 7.048.3 --- Kleur in de kunst ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Iconografie ; licht, beweging, kleur --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Corbusier, le --- Art, Modern --- Colors in art --- Monochrome art --- Modern art --- Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) --- art [discipline] --- Kandinsky, Wassily

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