Idea of Coleridge's Criticism: Perspectives in Criticism (Volume 9)

Literature & Fiction

Fogle, Richard Harter

History & Criticism

University of California Press

<p>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.</p>

The Idea of Coleridge's Criticism: Perspectives in Criticism (Volume 9)

Hawthorne's Fiction the Light and the Dark

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Melville's Shorter Tales.

The University of Oklahoma Press

Although the shadow of the great white whale, Moby Dick, looms perpetually large in nineteenth-century literature, Herman Melville’s shorter tales have often been slighted by critics and readers alike. Those lesser shapes of the San Dominick, Bannadonna’s bell tower, and the great Rock Rodondo of the Enchanted Islands have been seen only dimly through mists of neglect.               Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories. His approach is broadly literary—expounding Melville’s ideas as they exist in the context of the stories themselves and illuminating their connections with Melville’s total work.               The quality of the tales is uneven: they vary from “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby,” and “The Encantadas,” which are recognized as world masterpieces, to imperfect sketches like “The Lightning-Rod Man” and “The Happy Failure.” Yet all are serious investigations of meaning, informed by Melville’s brooding and contemplative intelligence.               Avoiding psychoanalytic and “mythical” criticism, Fogle develops a genuine concern for Melville’s own broad and nontechnical ethic, psychology, and metaphysic as woven into the fabric of his fiction. Melville is always, Fogle says, the seeker of knowledge “pitted against a finally inscrutable reality.” Perhaps borrowing from the courage of his subject, Fogle approaches Melville’s mysterious and perplexing world with confidence in his essential greatness—as an author and a man.

Melville's Shorter Tales

United States

University of Oklahoma Press

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The permanent pleasure;: Essays on classics of romanticism

University of Georgia Press

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