After the Whale - Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick - Clark Davis - Paperback Bog - The University of Alabama Press - 2021 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: The University of Alabama Press
Description
Focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward fish.
