The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and HawthorneThe Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century authors whose works are positioned at opposite extremes of the consideration of human identity, but lie at the heart of the American literary tradition, and have, in that tradition, their own revisionary status. |
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... Ahab and Pip : Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes 20 Moby - Dick ; Or , The Whale Duplicates in Mind Bone Dust 58 51 35 2 The Self in Itself Hawthorne's Constructions of the Human 77 Representative Men 88 Graves and Monuments 111 ...
... Ahab and Pip : Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes 20 Moby - Dick ; Or , The Whale Duplicates in Mind Bone Dust 58 51 35 2 The Self in Itself Hawthorne's Constructions of the Human 77 Representative Men 88 Graves and Monuments 111 ...
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The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne Sharon Cameron No preview available - 1991 |
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