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| Genre/Form: | Art |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Robillard, Douglas, 1928- Melville and the visual arts. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605174618 |
| Named Person: | Herman Melville; Herman Melville |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Robillard |
| ISBN: | 0873385756 9780873385756 |
| OCLC Number: | 36548853 |
| Description: | xviii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The sister arts : "I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas" -- The arts observed : "old blurred, bewrinkled mezzotint" -- Redburn : "mythological oil-paintings" -- Moby-Dick : "less erroneous pictures" -- Pierre : "a stranger's head by an unknown hand" -- Clarel : "dwell on those etchings in the night" -- The visual imagination : "wanderings after the picturesque". |
| Responsibility: | Douglas Robillard. |
Abstract:
Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interested in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works by visual arts, to give body to plot and character. In carefully tracing Melville's use of the art analogy as a literary technique, Douglas Robillard shows how Melville evolved as a writer. In separate chapters Robillard deals at length with Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Clarel. In briefer discussions he looks at the Piazza Tales and the shorter poems. His extensive history of what Melville saw, responded to, and valued offers new insights into Melville's creative processes.
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