An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known about Melville's life, works, and culture... consistently informative and frequently provocative. Choice
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?An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known
about Melville's life, works, and culture. In 25 separate articles,
scholars with a wide variety of perspectives--historical, textual,
bibliographical, formalist, structuralist, deconstructionist, and
even thanatological--explore Melville's texts, assess the
weaknesses and strengths of existing scholarship, and suggest
directions for future study. Inevitably, the results are somewhat
uneven, but they are consistently informative and frequently
provacative.?-Choice
"An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known
about Melville's life, works, and culture. In 25 separate articles,
scholars with a wide variety of perspectives--historical, textual,
bibliographical, formalist, structuralist, deconstructionist, and
even thanatological--explore Melville's texts, assess the
weaknesses and strengths of existing scholarship, and suggest
directions for future study. Inevitably, the results are somewhat
uneven, but they are consistently informative and frequently
provacative."-Choice
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