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No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville

Peter J Bellis

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Description:In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhood--the integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical text--that Melville explores throughout his work. He shows how, as Melville texts each of these, his work becomes increasingly self-reflexive and self-critical; his search for an absolute ground for both self and text ends by undermining the very authority it would establish. In this Melville differed markedly from Whitman and Thoreau, who did find or create identities for themselves in their writing.Bellis examines Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man, to show his method as ultimately deconstructive--culminating, in fact, in the abandonment of Melville's own career as a novelist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville. To get started finding No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 232

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1512800597

Description: In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhood--the integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical text--that Melville explores throughout his work. He shows how, as Melville texts each of these, his work becomes increasingly self-reflexive and self-critical; his search for an absolute ground for both self and text ends by undermining the very authority it would establish. In this Melville differed markedly from Whitman and Thoreau, who did find or create identities for themselves in their writing.Bellis examines Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man, to show his method as ultimately deconstructive--culminating, in fact, in the abandonment of Melville's own career as a novelist.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville. To get started finding No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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