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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... fearful chasms , separated by sharp - crested and perpendicular ridges as far as the eye could reach . Could we have stepped from summit to summit of these steep but narrow elevations we could easily have accomplished the distance ; but ...
... fearful chasms , separated by sharp - crested and perpendicular ridges as far as the eye could reach . Could we have stepped from summit to summit of these steep but narrow elevations we could easily have accomplished the distance ; but ...
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... fearful circumstances of our present situation . Was it possible that , after all our vicissitudes , we were really in the terrible valley of Typee , and at the mercy of its inmates , a fierce and un- relenting tribe of savages ? Typee ...
... fearful circumstances of our present situation . Was it possible that , after all our vicissitudes , we were really in the terrible valley of Typee , and at the mercy of its inmates , a fierce and un- relenting tribe of savages ? Typee ...
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... fearful that I might slip from them , several of the islanders now raised a simultaneous shout , and pressing upon Karakoee , they menaced him with furious gestures , and ac- tually forced him into the sea . Appalled at their violence ...
... fearful that I might slip from them , several of the islanders now raised a simultaneous shout , and pressing upon Karakoee , they menaced him with furious gestures , and ac- tually forced him into the sea . Appalled at their violence ...
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A Note on the Text | 15 |
A Sequel to Typee | 240 |
The Draft Manuscript | 256 |
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