Melville's Bibles
Ilana Pardes
ISBN: | 9780520254558 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Published: | 28 February, 2008 |
Format: | Paperback |
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Melville's Bibles
Ilana Pardes
"This is a splendid book, showing Ilana Pardes as a scholar-critic at the height of her powers. Distinguished and full of originality, Melville's Bibles brings into play a richly nuanced and minutely informed sense of the multiple roles of the Bible in antebellum American culture. This work is an important new understanding of the nature of Melville's major novel."--Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley "With a command of Biblical scholarship and a keen textual sensitivity, Pardes deftly analyzes the ways in which Melville incorporates Biblical language, genre, plot, character, and debate in Moby-Dick. Few critics have captured Melville's Biblical apprehensions and pretensions as well as Pardes or with her intellectual range and sympathy."--Samuel Otter, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
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