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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-100313334994

ISBN-139780313334993

eBay Product ID (ePID)56980545

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStudent Companion to Herman Melville

Publication Year2006

SubjectGeneral, American / General

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorSharon Talley

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesStudent Companions to Classic Writers Ser.

FormatBook, Other

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2006-031866

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Talley provides a student companion to the works of Herman Melville that is also intended for general readers. The volume is meant to help readers critically analyze his literature in a non-intimidating way. Beginning with a chapter on biography, the book discusses Melville's contributions to American literature, his influence, genres, and major works: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence Man , and Billy Budd , in addition to his short fiction, serialized novels, and poetry. Plot and character development and major themes are examined, as well as literary devices, style, narrative point of view, and setting. Each chapter incorporates an alternative critical perspective, such as feminist, postcolonial, genre, reader response, and deconstructionist criticism." -- Reference & Research Book News, "Talley provides a student companion to the works of Herman Melville that is also intended for general readers. The volume is meant to help readers critically analyze his literature in a non-intimidating way. Beginning with a chapter on biography, the book discusses Melville's contributions to American literature, his influence, genres, and major works: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence Man , and Billy Budd , in addition to his short fiction, serialized novels, and poetry. Plot and character development and major themes are examined, as well as literary devices, style, narrative point of view, and setting. Each chapter incorporates an alternative critical perspective, such as feminist, postcolonial, genre, reader response, and deconstructionist criticism." - Reference & Research Book News, "Talley provides a student companion to the works of Herman Melville that is also intended for general readers. The volume is meant to help readers critically analyze his literature in a non-intimidating way. Beginning with a chapter on biography, the book discusses Melville's contributions to American literature, his influence, genres, and major works: Typee , Omoo , Mardi , Redburn , White-Jacket , Moby-Dick , Pierre , The Confidence Man , and Billy Budd , in addition to his short fiction, serialized novels, and poetry. Plot and character development and major themes are examined, as well as literary devices, style, narrative point of view, and setting. Each chapter incorporates an alternative critical perspective, such as feminist, postcolonial, genre, reader response, and deconstructionist criticism."- Reference & Research Book News

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal813/.3

SynopsisA critical introduction to the life and literary works of Herman Melville, for student and adult readers., Student Companion to Herman Melville provides a critical introduction to the life and literary works of Herman Melville, the nineteenth-century American author of Moby-Dick , as well as nine other novels and numerous short stories and poems. In addition to providing an overview of Melville's life in relation to his literary works, the book places his writings within their historical and cultural contexts, and then examines each of his major works fully, at the level of the nonspecialist and generalist reader. The chapters that address major works by Melville feature close readings of the literary texts that include analysis of point of view, setting, plot, characters, symbolism, themes, and historical contexts when appropriate. In addition, the four chapters devoted to individual novels, as well as the chapter on Melville's poetry, feature alternate readings to introduce the reader to postcolonial, feminist, genre, reader response, and deconstructionist approaches to literary criticism. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that includes lists of Melville's published works, biographies, contemporary reviews, and recent critical studies. -Early Narratives, from Typee to White Jacket -Moby Dick -Pierre -The Piazza Tales -Other magazine tales: I and My Chimney, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids , and Israel Potter - The Confidence-Man - Poetry, including

LC Classification NumberPS2387