Typee: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical EssaysHoughton Mifflin, 2004 - 399 oldal This is the first edition of Typee to place its most riveting features the highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and taboo in a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melville's predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melville's treatment of these topics is unconventional and why it matters. The volume also includes a complete list of the excisions and revisions insisted on by Melville's American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. |
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... body cooked and eaten . [ If ] we de- pend upon such testimony the subject might rest forever ; but the universal testimony of natives is alike conclusive and painful . Each person or tribe , when accused , invariably deny the charge as ...
... body cooked and eaten . [ If ] we de- pend upon such testimony the subject might rest forever ; but the universal testimony of natives is alike conclusive and painful . Each person or tribe , when accused , invariably deny the charge as ...
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... body ; with the addition of grease , paint and other decorations , they also typically render it brilliant and attractive , while signifying maturity or a particular phase of adoles- cence . The effort to reinforce the body , and this ...
... body ; with the addition of grease , paint and other decorations , they also typically render it brilliant and attractive , while signifying maturity or a particular phase of adoles- cence . The effort to reinforce the body , and this ...
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... body , but exhibited its profoundly ambiguous character . The place of tattooing in the life cycle is further attested to by the re- markable Marquesan practice of removing the skin on death . Marquesans believed in an afterworld ...
... body , but exhibited its profoundly ambiguous character . The place of tattooing in the life cycle is further attested to by the re- markable Marquesan practice of removing the skin on death . Marquesans believed in an afterworld ...
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A Note on the Text | 15 |
A Sequel to Typee | 240 |
The Draft Manuscript | 256 |
Copyright | |
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