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Item Details
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MELVILLE AND THE VISUAL ARTS
IONIAN FORM, VENETIAN TINT |
| By: |
Douglas Robillard |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0873385756 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780873385756 |
| Publisher: |
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 October, 1997 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels. In this study, his use of the art analogy as a literary technique is traced, along with the influence of his predecessors and comtemporaries and how his sense of form was instructed by design in works of art. |
| Synopsis: |
Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interested in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works by visual arts, to give body to plot and character. In carefully tracing Melville's use of the art analogy as a literary technique, Douglas Robillard shows how Melville evolved as a writer. In separate chapters Robillard deals at length with Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Clarel. In briefer discussions he looks at the Piazza Tales and the shorter poems. His extensive history of what Melville saw, responded to, and valued offers new insights into Melville's creative processes. |
| Illustrations: |
13 halftones, notes, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kent State University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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