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Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

 
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

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Exiled Royalties is a literary-biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. The ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life,'" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, andvocational life. The title essay takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab," Melville's mythic projection of his own feelings of emotional and ontological disinheritance. How to live nobly in spiritual exile-to be godlike in the perceptible absence of God-was a lifelongpreoccupation for Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of his spiritual life to literature. Exiled Royalties explores the ways in which Melville satisfied this impulse throughout his forty-five year career, how it shaped the matter and manner of his work, and how his writing, in turn, reflexively bore upon his private life and upon the life of the nation.

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EAN / ISBN-:
9780195339109
Medium:
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl:
312
Erscheinungsdatum:
2009-05-15
Herausgeber:
Oxford University Press
EAN / ISBN-:
9780195339109
Medium:
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl:
312
Erscheinungsdatum:
2009-05-15
Herausgeber:
Oxford University Press

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