Plots and Characters in the Fiction and Narrative Poetry of Herman Melville

Robert L. Gale

ISBN 10: 0262570327 / ISBN 13: 9780262570329

Published by The MIT Press, 1972

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Synopsis:

273 pages. Ex-University Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. This Should Be Useful In Many Ways. The Reader May Wish To Have Some Understanding Of The Plot Or Contents Of A Certain Melvillan Novel, Short Story,or Narrative Poems Before Reading It, Or He May Wish To Review The Contents Of A Work After Reading It.

Review: "Following his similar guides to the fiction of Hawthorne and Henry James, Gale once more provides serious readers with a carefully conceived and executed key to an American literary master's art. The details of Melville's fiction are often hard to remember; but these lucid, balanced summaries and lists restore them effectively. For the complex novels, Gale tactfully hints at important reservoirs of symbolism and expertly gives perspective to Melville's infinite 'digressions.' After each plot summary, the characters are listed alphabetically. The second half of the book locates and describes the characters. From the hand of a seasoned scholar, such a manual emphasizes the purely literary qualities of Melville's prose and verse fictions and disdains comparison with the miserable hodgepodges of plot summary and critical distortion we too often see in the ubiquitous crib notes sold at campus book stores. Gale's book is a valuable reference work for either the literary scholar or the ambit

Bibliographic Details

Title: Plots and Characters in the Fiction and ...
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good