Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Melville and the Question of Meaning PDF full book. Access full book title Melville and the Question of Meaning by David Faflik. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: David Faflik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351110810 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for "the ‘meaning’ of the characters," the "meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and "everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.
Author: David Faflik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351110810 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for "the ‘meaning’ of the characters," the "meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and "everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0143123971 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review
Author: Branka Arsic Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 150132103X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. Melville's Philosophies recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change, and post-humanism.
Author: Herman Melville Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
Board the steamboat Mississippi on a journey down a river of deception. It's April Fool's Day, and a mysterious stranger,the "Confidence-Man," slithers aboard. With a silver tongue and an endless capacity for disguise, he weaves a web of scams, targeting the hopes, dreams, and vulnerabilities of his fellow passengers. Will a pious man be swayed by a promise of a utopian community? Can a cynic be convinced to invest in a cure-all elixir? As the Mississippi churns, Melville's masterpiece "The Confidence-Man" delivers a darkly comic satire on American society, where trust and truth are as murky as the river itself. Prepare to be entertained, and maybe a little unsettled.
Author: Daniel Paliwoda Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786457023 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
Boredom is a prevalent theme in Herman Melville's works. Rather than a passing fancy or a device for drawing attention to the action that also permeates his work, boredom is central to the writings, the author argues. He contends that in Melville's mature work, especially Moby Dick, boredom presents itself as an insidious presence in the lives of Melville's characters, until it matures from being a mere killer of time into a killer of souls.
Author: R. C. Sproul Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1585586528 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
What Do the Five Points of Calvinism Really Mean? Many have heard of Reformed theology, but may not be certain what it is. Some references to it have been positive, some negative. It appears to be important, and they'd like to know more about it. But they want a full, understandable explanation, not a simplistic one. What Is Reformed Theology? is an accessible introduction to beliefs that have been immensely influential in the evangelical church. In this insightful book, R. C. Sproul walks readers through the foundations of the Reformed doctrine and explains how the Reformed belief is centered on God, based on God's Word, and committed to faith in Jesus Christ. Sproul explains the five points of Reformed theology and makes plain the reality of God's amazing grace.
Author: David Faflik
Author: David Faflik
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Author: Patrick Francis Quinn
Author: Branka Arsic
Author: John Borton
Author: Joseph G. Knapp
Author: Brian Yothers
Author: Herman Melville
Author: Daniel Paliwoda
Author: R. C. Sproul