Melvilles Other Lives

Name: Melvilles Other Lives
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842405Melvilles Other Liveshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/melvilles-other-lives/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/857879/8f118c26-1f84-43d8-8879-34a15b698b1a.jpg?v=638336505653030000542571MXNUniversity of Virginia PressInStock/Ebooks/Melvilles Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza TalesHerman Melvilles only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetimeand the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melvilles stories.As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or "others": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its struggles and frustrations. Some tales concern common trials such as illness or invalidism ("The Piazza"), the tedium of office work ("Bartleby"), or the aggravation of door-to-door salesmen ("The Lightning-Rod Man"). Others concern extraordinary trials: the traumatic violence of a rebellion on a slave ship ("Benito Cereno"), the hardships of surviving on a wasteland archipelago ("The Encantadas"), the perils of creating a monstrous "man-machine" ("The Bell-Tower"). In their concern for the cultural meanings of such trials, Melvilles stories look forward to the work of Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, and other cultural materialists who have shown how cultures define, control, and oppress bodies based on their otherness. As a storyteller, Melville understood how such cultural dynamics operate and seized on our collective obsession with the human body as subject, symbol, and vehicle to dramatize his tales....836322Melvilles Other Lives542571https://www.gandhi.com.mx/melvilles-other-lives/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/857879/8f118c26-1f84-43d8-8879-34a15b698b1a.jpg?v=638336505653030000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229780813945453_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_Melvilles Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza TalesHerman Melvilles only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetimeand the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melvilles stories.As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or "others": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its struggles and frustrations. Some tales concern common trials such as illness or invalidism ("The Piazza"), the tedium of office work ("Bartleby"), or the aggravation of door-to-door salesmen ("The Lightning-Rod Man"). Others concern extraordinary trials: the traumatic violence of a rebellion on a slave ship ("Benito Cereno"), the hardships of surviving on a wasteland archipelago ("The Encantadas"), the perils of creating a monstrous "man-machine" ("The Bell-Tower"). In their concern for the cultural meanings of such trials, Melvilles stories look forward to the work of Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, and other cultural materialists who have shown how cultures define, control, and oppress bodies based on their otherness. As a storyteller, Melville understood how such cultural dynamics operate and seized on our collective obsession with the human body as subject, symbol, and vehicle to dramatize his tales....9780813945453_University of Virginia Presslibro_electonico_2f3679d5-45ea-3497-b28c-b92965509f88_9780813945453;9780813945453_9780813945453Christopher StenInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-ee6ef0b0-1a2a-4cae-b575-aaf1b21d9beb.epub2022-07-19T00:00:00+00:00University of Virginia Press