Author: Bill AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Fenceless Meadows
Author: Bill AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Sea-Brothers
Author: Bert BenderPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151281430X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a central vision within the tradition and showing how particular authors draw from, transform, and contribute to it. What is most distinctive about American sea fiction, Bender contends, is its visionary, often mystical, response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. When Melville envisioned the sea as the essential element of life, indeed as life itself, he changed the course of American sea fiction by introducing the relevance of biological thought. But his meditations on the whale and "the ungraspable phantom of life" project a different reality from that envisioned by his successors. In American sea fiction after Melville, the influence of Origin of Species is as powerful as that of Moby Dick or the theme of sailing ships being displaced by steam. The ideal of brotherhood so central to American sea fiction was severely compromised by the biological reality of a competitive, warring nature. Twentieth-century sea fiction has continued to center on the biological world and address the possibility of democratic brotherhood, but the issues were fundamentally changed by Darwin's theories. This book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of American literature and will interest readers of sea fiction.
My Woods
Author: Samuel Alain HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Fiction Catalog
Author: Fenceless Meadows
Author: Bill AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Carnegie Free Library (Allegheny, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Round Robin
Author: Short Story Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
Adventure
Author: Time
Author: Briton HaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description