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- catalog abstract "Herman Melville was an intense and tortured writer, plagued by writing anxiety, emotional problems, and painful physical ailments. He produced his extraordinary body of work only with great anguish, and he appears to have inflicted great anguish on those around him. According to Elizabeth Renker, we learn much about Melville's fiction if we see how violent and frustrating the experience of writing was for him. In Strike through the Mask Renker argues that Melville's frustrated engagement with the page - characterized by illegible handwriting, chronically bad spelling, and violent manipulations of text - is the most important source of his work's drama and power. She examines the impact on his writing of his struggles with writer's block and depression. And she explores Melville's complex relationship with women, particularly his wife and sisters, on whom he depended to copy and correct his manuscripts. (Renker's evidence that Melville physically and emotionally abused his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville, has already generated attention and controversy). Renker sees Melville's experience of writing reflected in his haunting and enduring theme of disturbing, impenetrable faces. Ahab's famous desire to "strike through the mask" of the dead, blind "pasteboard" wall echoes Melville's own relentless striking through and rewriting in his private battle with the blank page.".
- catalog contributor b9189768.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Melville's Spell in Typee -- Ch. 2. Fear of Faces: From Moby-Dick to Pierre -- Ch. 3. Wife Beating and the Written Page -- Ch. 4. "Those mere phantoms which flit along a page" in The Confidence-Man -- Ch. 5. Battle "Pieces" -- P.S.: Marks in "John Marr."".
- catalog description "Herman Melville was an intense and tortured writer, plagued by writing anxiety, emotional problems, and painful physical ailments. He produced his extraordinary body of work only with great anguish, and he appears to have inflicted great anguish on those around him. According to Elizabeth Renker, we learn much about Melville's fiction if we see how violent and frustrating the experience of writing was for him.".
- catalog description "In Strike through the Mask Renker argues that Melville's frustrated engagement with the page - characterized by illegible handwriting, chronically bad spelling, and violent manipulations of text - is the most important source of his work's drama and power. She examines the impact on his writing of his struggles with writer's block and depression. And she explores Melville's complex relationship with women, particularly his wife and sisters, on whom he depended to copy and correct his manuscripts. (Renker's evidence that Melville physically and emotionally abused his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville, has already generated attention and controversy). Renker sees Melville's experience of writing reflected in his haunting and enduring theme of disturbing, impenetrable faces. Ahab's famous desire to "strike through the mask" of the dead, blind "pasteboard" wall echoes Melville's own relentless striking through and rewriting in his private battle with the blank page.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 182 :".
- catalog hasFormat "Strike through the mask.".
- catalog identifier "0801852307 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Strike through the mask.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Strike through the mask.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Social aspects United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Authorship.".
- catalog subject "PS2388.A9 R46 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Melville's Spell in Typee -- Ch. 2. Fear of Faces: From Moby-Dick to Pierre -- Ch. 3. Wife Beating and the Written Page -- Ch. 4. "Those mere phantoms which flit along a page" in The Confidence-Man -- Ch. 5. Battle "Pieces" -- P.S.: Marks in "John Marr."".
- catalog title "Strike through the mask : Herman Melville and the scene of writing / Elizabeth Renker.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".