Melville's monumental imagination
By: by Ian S. Maloney.
Series: Studies in major literary authors; Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Technique.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Art.; Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.; Monuments in literature.; Memorials in literature.; Sculpture in literature.; Ekphrasis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melville's monumental mind; title: Peeping into Polynesian memorials : ekphrastic indifference in travel and Typee; title: Plodding through Mardi's mazes and monuments : the imaginary voyage into ekphrastic hope; title: Redburn and the realistic journey of ekphrastic fear; title: Fast fish, fluid forms, and Moby-Dick; title: Pierre and Israel Potter : fragments, fissures, and forgotten heroes in stone and print.