Peter J Bellis (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville. Peter J. Bellis. Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. 222p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket clean/square/in mylar, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, fine condition ISBN 10: 0812282299ISBN 13: 97808122822908.00.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 8vo., 221pp. Ex-Lib, with usual faults, otherwise a clean, tight, apparently unread copy with dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 222 pp., index, notes. In this insightful study the author shows how Melville identifies the concept of "self" in each of his novels on which to base personal and social relationships. very good. copy in d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Almost Like New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket is slightly scuffed and bumped on top corner edges.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition. 221 pages.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau. Book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. (First Edition, First Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with-rather than escape from or obscure-social and political issues.Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Bellis's subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society.Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as "neutral territory" where the Imaginary and the Actual-the aesthetic and the historical-can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence.In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.…

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Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 221 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: New. Examines the many nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, exploring the ways in which they engage with - rather than escape from or obscure - social and political issues.&Uumlber de.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with--rather than escape from or obscure--social and political issues. Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Bellis's subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society. Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as 'neutral territory' where the Imaginary and the Actual--the aesthetic and the historical--can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence. In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.…

Hardback. Condition: New. In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhood-the integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical text-that Melville explores throughout his work. He shows how, as Melville texts each of these, his work becomes increasingly self-reflexive and self-critical; his search for an absolute ground for both self and text ends by undermining the very authority it would establish. In this Melville differed markedly from Whitman and Thoreau, who did find or create identities for themselves in their writing. Bellis examines Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man, to show his method as ultimately deconstructive-culminating, in fact, in the abandonment of Melville's own career as a novelist.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with-rather than escape from or obscure-social and political issues.Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Bellis's subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society.Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as "neutral territory" where the Imaginary and the Actual-the aesthetic and the historical-can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence.In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. No detailed description available for No Mysteries Out of Ourselves .Bellis Peter J. : Peter J. Bellis is Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.&Uumlber den AutorPeter J. Bellis is Professo.

Hardback. Condition: New. In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates three forms of selfhood-the integrity of the physical body, the son's genealogical link to his father, and the coherence of an autobiographical text-that Melville explores throughout his work. He shows how, as Melville texts each of these, his work becomes increasingly self-reflexive and self-critical; his search for an absolute ground for both self and text ends by undermining the very authority it would establish. In this Melville differed markedly from Whitman and Thoreau, who did find or create identities for themselves in their writing. Bellis examines Melville's last novel, The Confidence-Man, to show his method as ultimately deconstructive-culminating, in fact, in the abandonment of Melville's own career as a novelist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 234 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

fester Einband. VII, 221 S. (23,5 cm) OLn-OU. 1st edition. Guter Zustand. Auflage: 1 ISBN 0820323926. Sprache / Language: Englisch.