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245 00 a| Melville and aesthetics /c| edited by Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn.;

260 a| New York :b| Palgrave Macmillan,c| 2011.;

300 a| vii, 263 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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520 a| "In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. The ultimate effect of the collection, the first of its kind, is to return us to the particularities of Melville's extraordinarily varied works and to transform the subject of aesthetics into an invigorating and unpredictable source of interpretive energy"--c| Provided by publisher.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.;

505 0 a| Blubber: Melville's bad writing / Alex Calder -- Melville's ornamentation: on irrelevant beauty / Theo Davis -- Melvillean provocation and the critical art of devotion / Andrew DuBois -- Strange sensations: sex and aesthetics in "The counterpane" / Christopher Looby -- Dead bones and honest wonders: the aesthetics of natural science in Moby-Dick / Jennifer J. Baker -- Pulled by the line: speed and photography in Moby-Dick / Laura Rigal -- Pierre's nominal conversions / Elizabeth Duquette -- "The silhouette of a content": "Bartleby" and American literary specificity / Nancy Ruttenburg -- The revolutionary aesthetics of Israel Potter / Robert S. Levine -- Theatricality, strangeness, and the aesthetics of plurality in The confidence-man / Jennifer Greiman -- Battle music: Melville and the forms of war / Peter Coviello -- Melville's song of songs: Clarel as aesthetic pilgrimage / Ilana Pardes.;

600 10 a| Melville, Herman,d| 1819-1891x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A16368;

650 0 a| Aesthetics in literature.=| ^A156280;

650 7 a| LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.2| bisacsh;

650 7 a| SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.2| bisacsh;

650 7 a| LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.2| bisacsh;

700 1 a| Sanborn, Geoffrey.=| ^A407066;

700 1 a| Otter, Samuel,d| 1956-=| ^A409839;

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Melville and aesthetics / edited by Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn.

Other author	Sanborn, Geoffrey.
Other author	Otter, Samuel, 1956-
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description	vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation. Aesthetics in literature.

Contents	Blubber: Melville's bad writing / Alex Calder -- Melville's ornamentation: on irrelevant beauty / Theo Davis -- Melvillean provocation and the critical art of devotion / Andrew DuBois -- Strange sensations: sex and aesthetics in "The counterpane" / Christopher Looby -- Dead bones and honest wonders: the aesthetics of natural science in Moby-Dick / Jennifer J. Baker -- Pulled by the line: speed and photography in Moby-Dick / Laura Rigal -- Pierre's nominal conversions / Elizabeth Duquette -- "The silhouette of a content": "Bartleby" and American literary specificity / Nancy Ruttenburg -- The revolutionary aesthetics of Israel Potter / Robert S. Levine -- Theatricality, strangeness, and the aesthetics of plurality in The confidence-man / Jennifer Greiman -- Battle music: Melville and the forms of war / Peter Coviello -- Melville's song of songs: Clarel as aesthetic pilgrimage / Ilana Pardes.
Abstract	"In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. The ultimate effect of the collection, the first of its kind, is to return us to the particularities of Melville's extraordinarily varied works and to transform the subject of aesthetics into an invigorating and unpredictable source of interpretive energy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.
LCCN	2011005463
ISBN	9780230113794 (hardback)
ISBN	0230113796 (hardback)

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