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BL
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998609
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b752979
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| Title & Author
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Herman Melville /\ edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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| Edition Statement
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New ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Bloom's Literary Criticism,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Bloom's modern critical views
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| Page. NO
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viii, 285 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791096211
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: 9780791096215
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-273) and index.
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| Contents
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Towards "Bartleby the scrivener" / Milton R. Stern -- Melville's problematic "being" / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Reenvisioning America : Melville's "Benito cereno" / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Allegory and breakdown in The confidence-man: Melville's comedy of doubt / John Bryant -- "The author at the time" : Tommo and Melville's self-discovery in Typee / Bryan C. Short -- Melville and the woman's story / Nancy Fredericks -- "To tell over again the story just told" : the composition of Melville's Redburn / Stephen Mathewson -- Israel Potter : Melville's "citizen of the universe" / Bill Christophersen -- Disquieting encounters : male intrusions/female realms in Melville / Judith Hiltner -- Narrative self-fashioning and the play of possibility / John Wenke -- Whose book is Moby-Dick? / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. -- Naples and HMS Bellipotent : Melville on the police state / Stanton Garner -- Naturalist psychology in Billy Budd / Thomas Hove -- We are family : Melville's Pierre / Cindy Weinstein -- Discipline and the lash in Melville's White-jacket / Peter Bellis.
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| Abstract
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This new edition of essays gathers together some of the best criticism available on the works of Herman Melville.
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| Subject
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Melville, Herman-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891.
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Melville, Herman.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3
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| LC Classification
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PS2387.H4135 2008
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HT 6015rvk
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I712.064clc
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| Added Entry
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Bloom, Harold.
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