That Lonely Game: Melville, Mardi and the Almanac - Maxine Moore
Oblast: Engleski
Artikal: 12769 : Tezina: 1.05 kg
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Autor: Maxine Moore
Opis: Missouri 1975, tvrdi povez, stanje odlicno, str. 281, ilustracije, jezik: engleski
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With index, bibliography and appendix. Foreword by Hennig Cohen.
University of Missouri Studies LXIII. Irked by the derogatory reaction
of British critics who doubted that such books as Typee and Omoo could
have been written bya common American sailor, Melville created Mardi--on
the surface, the record of an odyssey through imagined South Sea world.
For the first time, Moore unravels the puzzle Melville created in
Mardi, designed to dupe his elitist British readers, by exploring
Melville's knowledge of astronomy, nautical navigation, astrology, and
game theories. Hennig Cohen's foreword defends the traditional approach
to reading Mardi and argues that Moore's heretical interpretation is
interesting but narrow in scope. Moore then invites the reader to 'play
Mardi'--to engage n games of wit, elaborate metaphor, and arcane
learning-- to reveal the full meaning of the novel. The game may be
plated most successfully by using the astronomy and astrology of
Melville's time, but a knowledge of the Tarot and Ganjifa cards and of
the usual Western decks of playing cards will add depth to your
understanding. Mardi fulfills Melville's calim to originality and stands
unique as a masterpiece of synthesis. Moore demonstrates a circular
pattern in which metaphors intertwine and shows how Melville's use of
The American Alamanac and his metaphor of time provides unity. She
theorizes that Melville was a highly concious artist, capable of
manipulating intricate strands of imagery, metaphor, and symbol through a
detailed and precise method. Moreover, an elaborate system of puns
gives his work an unsuspected economy even where it seems excessively
and unnecessarily wordy. Though Mardi fails, perhaps from tediousness
and overmanipulation, Melville followed through with the artistic
implications in his later and greater books. Moore feels he had a highly
developed concept of the errant or deceitful narrator and hoped to
force his readers into an intense riddle-solving approach to Mardi.
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