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The Value of Herman Melville (Paperback)
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The Value of Herman Melville (Paperback)
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In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville
to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist
who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal provider,
a writer who wants more than anything else to supply us with the
means of enriching our experiences. In twelve brief chapters,
Sanborn examines the distinctive qualities of Melville's style -
its dynamism, its improvisatoriness, its intimacy with remembered
or imagined events - and shows how those qualities, once they have
become a part of our equipment for living, enable us to sink deeper
roots into the world. Ranging across his career, but focusing in
particular on Moby-Dick, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito
Cereno', and Billy Budd, Sanborn shows us a Melville who is
animating rather than overawing, who encourages us to bring more of
ourselves to the present and to care more about the life that we
share with others.
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