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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... feet in length , and five or six feet thick . Their sides are quite smooth , but though square , and of pretty regular formation , they bear no mark of the chisel . They are laid together without cement , and here and there show gaps ...
... feet in length , and five or six feet thick . Their sides are quite smooth , but though square , and of pretty regular formation , they bear no mark of the chisel . They are laid together without cement , and here and there show gaps ...
370. oldal
... feet on another , the mode in which the natives usually recline , with his wife by his side . He was tattooed most shockingly , but with all did not look so frightful as had been represented . His wife has truly a pleasing countenance ...
... feet on another , the mode in which the natives usually recline , with his wife by his side . He was tattooed most shockingly , but with all did not look so frightful as had been represented . His wife has truly a pleasing countenance ...
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... feet square composes our habitation . On one side it is thirty feet from top to bottom , on the other it is four feet . We enter on the low side- it is quite a stoop to get in . We have a window opposite the door , a sash without glass ...
... feet square composes our habitation . On one side it is thirty feet from top to bottom , on the other it is four feet . We enter on the low side- it is quite a stoop to get in . We have a window opposite the door , a sash without glass ...
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A Note on the Text | 15 |
A Sequel to Typee | 240 |
The Draft Manuscript | 256 |
Copyright | |
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appeared approached arms beautiful believe body brought called cannibalism Captain carried chiefs civilized cocoa-nut companion continued Cook course culture desire entered eyes face fact fearful feet followed fruit gave girls give ground groves hand head human idea inhabitants islanders kind King Kory-Kory land least leaves less light living looked manner matter means Mehevi Melville mind moment morning natives nature nearly never night Nukuheva observed occasion once operation Pacific particular passed perhaps person present produced reach regard relations remained rest savages seemed seen ship short side sometimes soon standing strange stream taboo tattooing thing thought tion Toby trees turned Typee understand valley various vessel Voyage warrior whole women young