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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... less annoying to the victim , and more in accordance with the refined spirit of the age ; and yet how feeble is all language to describe the hor- rors we inflict upon these wretches , whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons , and ...
... less annoying to the victim , and more in accordance with the refined spirit of the age ; and yet how feeble is all language to describe the hor- rors we inflict upon these wretches , whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons , and ...
359. oldal
... less sacred people , and thereby rendered less contagious . This was not a one - off rite but an oper- ation that was performed a number of times through childhood , presum- ably because sanctity was too intense to be removed entirely ...
... less sacred people , and thereby rendered less contagious . This was not a one - off rite but an oper- ation that was performed a number of times through childhood , presum- ably because sanctity was too intense to be removed entirely ...
361. oldal
... less contagious and less vulner- able , the person moving out of the world of light and life and back into the world of night had their wrappings removed and their sanctity enhanced , such that they might be assimilated again to their ...
... less contagious and less vulner- able , the person moving out of the world of light and life and back into the world of night had their wrappings removed and their sanctity enhanced , such that they might be assimilated again to their ...
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A Note on the Text | 15 |
A Sequel to Typee | 240 |
The Draft Manuscript | 256 |
Copyright | |
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