Secret sharers
Subtitle: Melville, Conrad and narratives of the real
By: edited by Paweł Jędrzejko, Milton M. Reigelman, Zuzanna Szatanik
Contributors: Jędrzejko, Paweł, 1970-; Reigelman, Milton M., 1942-; Szatanik, Zuzanna
Series: Melville studies series -- v. 2
Publisher: M-Studio
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Zabrze [Poland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9788362023561
Subjects: Congresses; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Narration (Rhetoric); Self (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: Includes index and bibliographic references.
Table of contents: title: Melville cosmopolite: the future of the Melville text  -- John Bryant; title: The geopolitics of wandering in Conrad and Melville  -- Fiona Tomkinson; title: Roving 'twixt land and sea: Melville and Conrad in the world system  -- James Weldon Long; title: Typee and Almayer's Folly: a peep at literary beginnings  -- Sostene Massimo Zangari; title: Melville's Spanish prisoner: piracy, confidence, copyright  -- Stephen Andrews; title: Identity cruxes: Melville and Conrad and plagiarists / r Scott Norsworthy -- Wreckage and writing: problems of pseudo-autobiography in Melville's Omoo and Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea  -- Alex Calder; title: "To follow the dream and again follow the dream": Don Quixote, Almayer and Conrad as multiple reflections of the dreamer  -- Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech; title: Narcissus/Narcissus: men, myths, and ships in Melville and Conrad  -- Dennis Berthold; title: The idea of vanitas in The Mirror of the Sea  -- Joanna Mstowska; title: Melville and the magic mirror  -- Sarah Thwaites; title: The tales of survivors: Moby-Dick in the mirror of Sam Peckinpah's western movie Major Dundee  -- Marek Paryź; title: Sailor talk in Melville and Conrad  -- Mary K. Bercaw Edwards; title: Conrads realist seriousness and Melville's romance extravagance: the characterization of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and Ahab in Moby-Dick  -- Wendy Stallard Flory; title: Rowing the man to doom: self-implication and narrative irony in Heart of Darkness and Moby-Dick  -- Susan Garbarini Fanning; title: :Wreck ho, a wreck": melodrama and the text of muteness in Melville and Conrad  -- Wyn Kelley; title: "Organic hesitancy": on speechlessness in Billy Budd  -- Ralph James Savarese; title: "Infernal aforethought of malignity": Melville's whale, autism and the question of animal intelligence  -- Christopher Sten; title: "Water, water, everywhere": vertiginous intersubjectivity in Conrad and Melville  -- Yael Levin; title: Epistemological vertigo: knowledge and skepticism in Moby-Dick  -- Aubrey McPhail; title: The tranquility of the ocean: on Melville's philosophy of participation -- Paweł Jędrzejko.