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- catalog abstract "That Herman Melville was a philosophical fiction writer may be generally accepted, but the implications of this definition are unclear. In Melville's Muse, John Wenke discusses what it means - both biographically and textually - for Melville to combine philosophy and aesthetics. Wenke focuses on Melville's failures and successes in developing fictional forms to contain and express metaphysical speculations. He examines how the author appropriated and transformed elements of his Calvinist-Lutheran heritage; his eclectic reading in ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary writings; his Romantic Zeitgeist; and his cultural and political milieu. Through his analysis, he clearly shows that consciously articulated life choices led Melville to create texts that are both derivative and revolutionary. This study offers a new interpretation of some existing materials but also provides many specific discoveries of Melville's use of Plato, Francois Rabelais, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. It combines traditional historicism with contemporary theoretical practice, resulting in an interdisciplinary jargon-free critical narrative. Of particular interest to specialists in Melvillean studies, American Romanticism, and 19th-century American literature, it also will appeal to scholars of philosophy and literature, literature and culture, and literary criticism.".
- catalog contributor b8270106.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Pt. 1. Mardi: "The Peculiar Theatre of the Romantic and Wonderful" -- 1. Making Mardi's Patchwork -- 2. Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility -- 3. Perpetual Cycling -- Pt. 2. "The Absolute Condition of Present Things" -- 4. Redburn and White-Jacket: "Concocting Information into Wisdom" -- 5. Moby-Dick and the Impress of Melville's Learning -- 6. Moby-Dick and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction -- Pt. 3. Pierre and The Confidence-Man: "This Guild of Self-Impostors" -- 7. Excursive Ponderings in Pierre -- 8. Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: "The Most Extraordinary Metaphysical Scamps"".
- catalog description "That Herman Melville was a philosophical fiction writer may be generally accepted, but the implications of this definition are unclear. In Melville's Muse, John Wenke discusses what it means - both biographically and textually - for Melville to combine philosophy and aesthetics. Wenke focuses on Melville's failures and successes in developing fictional forms to contain and express metaphysical speculations. He examines how the author appropriated and transformed elements of his Calvinist-Lutheran heritage; his eclectic reading in ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary writings; his Romantic Zeitgeist; and his cultural and political milieu. Through his analysis, he clearly shows that consciously articulated life choices led Melville to create texts that are both derivative and revolutionary. This study offers a new interpretation of some existing materials but also provides many specific discoveries of Melville's use of Plato, Francois Rabelais, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. It combines traditional historicism with contemporary theoretical practice, resulting in an interdisciplinary jargon-free critical narrative. Of particular interest to specialists in Melvillean studies, American Romanticism, and 19th-century American literature, it also will appeal to scholars of philosophy and literature, literature and culture, and literary criticism.".
- catalog extent "xx, 251 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Melville's muse.".
- catalog identifier "0873385276".
- catalog isFormatOf "Melville's muse.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Melville's muse.".
- catalog subject "813/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- catalog subject "Fiction Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Literary form History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literary form.".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "PS2388.A35 W46 1995".
- catalog subject "Philosophy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. 1. Mardi: "The Peculiar Theatre of the Romantic and Wonderful" -- 1. Making Mardi's Patchwork -- 2. Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility -- 3. Perpetual Cycling -- Pt. 2. "The Absolute Condition of Present Things" -- 4. Redburn and White-Jacket: "Concocting Information into Wisdom" -- 5. Moby-Dick and the Impress of Melville's Learning -- 6. Moby-Dick and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction -- Pt. 3. Pierre and The Confidence-Man: "This Guild of Self-Impostors" -- 7. Excursive Ponderings in Pierre -- 8. Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: "The Most Extraordinary Metaphysical Scamps"".
- catalog title "Melville's muse : literary creation and the forms of philosophical fiction / John Wenke.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".