Magazine article from our research archive:
|
|
What's a feminist to do with Melville?(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Herman Melville)
- Article from:
-
Leviathan
- Article date:
-
June 1, 2008
- Author:
-
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Melville Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Feminist criticism contributes a stimulating, if still compact, scholarship in the field of Melville studies. The past three decades of feminist study have not only revisited questions of Melville and misogyny, but also renewed interest in his short fiction, poetry, and Pierre; opened up multiple significances of gendered figures in his texts; reconsidered his career through new historical models of authorship; and more. This year's MLA panel provided the occasion to extend the inquiry in a range of approaches that address a range of texts.
Heather Levy shows the importance of continued feminist critique and careful reading to distinguish where ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
Monumental Melville: the Formation of a Literary Career.(Book review)
Leviathan;
March 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
......2004. 230 pages. Herman Melville's career as a publishing fiction writer lasted for eleven...career as a writer of fiction and Melville's much longer career as...detail the progress of Melville as a fiction-writer and fewer good...
|
|
MELVILLE: His World and WorkBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune;
October 5, 2005 ;
700+ words
......tacks back and forth from fiction to fact. He adds nothing...biographical data about Melville. Instead, he concentrates on placing the fiction in historical and political...making connections between Melville's works and the circumstances...the city, Delbanco argues, Melville developed a ...
|
|
|
William Potter: Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds.(Book...
Leviathan;
June 1, 2007 ;
700+ words
......reminds us in this book, Melville's composition of this long...appearance of his last work of fiction) and the publication of...bringing new monographs on Melville into print, we now have...religious references in Melville's writings has recently...compiled by Gall H. Coffler in Melville's ...
|
|
Canonical texts and context: the example of Herman Melville's "Bartleby,...
College Literature;
June 1, 1993 ;
700+ words
......contexts in which Melville's short fiction, and Bartleby in...meaning, we rescue Melville from his classic...received some of Melville's most sophisticated...significantly his short fiction also displays the...deliberateness of Melville's practices and...in the type of fiction ...
|
|
|
Unbolting Melville's Japan.(Herman Melville's novels)
Leviathan;
October 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
......celebrated energy of his diving, it can hardly surprise that Melville would be drawn to the imaginative if not actual unbolting...here give due recognition. They look, respectively, to Melville's place be it historical, shrewdly prophetic, symbolist-myth...Van Doren who observed in the Bookman for April 1924 ...
|
|
|
Melville's marginalia: Milton's poems.(Critical Essay)
Leviathan;
March 1, 2002 ;
700+ words
......struggle between warships. For Melville, the volumes of Milton...find their way into his own fiction and poetry, in quotations...importance of Milton's poetry to Melville's writings has long been...Chronicle suggests that Melville studied Milton's poetry...Milton's influence upon Melville's ...
|
|
|
Andrew Delbanco: Melville: His World and Work.(Book review)
Leviathan;
March 1, 2007 ;
700+ words
......academy have not. With his own incisive accounts of Melville's prose, Delbanco deepens the tradition of Arvin and...political context, and he argues for the importance to Melville's creative development of his sensory encounters with...the city--complements rather than opposites--awakened Melville's ...
|
|
Melville and Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright
Comparative Literature;
January 1, 1997 ;
700+ words
...MELVILLE AND TURNER: SPHERES...Equilibrium in Fiction and Music, and...Equilibrium in Fiction and Music, Robert...both Turner and Melville; but their number...integral part of Melville's allusion to...discussion of how Melville extends "the fictional depiction of color...
|
|
"no soul above": Labor and the "law in art" in Melville's "The Bell-Tower"
The Arizona Quarterly;
April 1, 2007 ;
700+ words
......before the British publication of Moby-Dick (1851), Melville sent a now-famous letter to Hawthorne where he complains...and all my books are botches" (Writings 14:127-28). Melville's anxieties were well-founded and today read suggestively...premonitions. The contemporary critical reception of Melville is ...
|
 "ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)")
|
Melville's "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!": a case study in bipolar disorder.(Herman...
ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly);
March 1, 2003 ;
700+ words
......his introduction to The Portable Melville, eminent Melville scholar Jay Leyda eloquently states that There is a link between Melville's experiences and his works, which are all a transmutation...degree, of a reality he had observed or lived (xi). Melville's frequent encounters with mental ...
|
|
MLA 2002--New York City is life worth living? (Abstracts).(criticism and...
Melville Society Extracts;
February 1, 2003 ;
700+ words
......ostensible paradox, what, for Melville, gives value, hope, and...see in his poetry or his fiction or his life what provides...In the Dust of Wisdom : Melville and the Search for Transcendent...evasions, the Derwents of Melville's works traverse unawares...existential angst often adopted by ...
|
|
|
"'Free Robe and Vest': Melville and the Uncollected Fragment".(ALA...
Leviathan;
October 1, 2007 ;
259 words
......with the strait jackets of Melville's early fiction (the ill-fitting jackets of...contrast, the free robe and vest Melville's speaker yearns for in the...concluded, of writing prose fiction. I would like to read the...also speaking more broadly to Melville's decision occasionally to...
|
|
O PIONEERS! NEW LIVES OF TWAIN AND MELVILLE, WHO REMADE THE MAP OF...
The Boston Globe;
September 18, 2005 ;
700+ words
......the age of 40, with the exception of "Billy Budd," Melville confined himself to poetry. He died in obscurity in 1891. Delbanco recognizes that Melville was sui generis. Nonetheless, he speculates, brilliantly...that residence in New York City in the 1840s molded Melville's modernism, stylistically and ...
|
|
Melville's first short story: a parody of Poe. (Notes )
Studies in American Fiction;
March 22, 1993 ;
700+ words
......indebtedness, the twenty-year old Melville wrote Fragments from a Writing...The Fragments represent Melville's first literary productions...remain a dominant mode of Melville's creative temper throughout his career as a writer of fiction. Fragment 2 constitutes Melville's first short story, ...
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|