Melville's Muse · Literary Creation & the Forms of Philosophical Fiction
- Authors
- Wenke, John Paul
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- ISBN
- 9780873385275
- Date
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
An examination of what it means - both biographically and textually - for Herman Melville to combine philosopy and aesthetics in his work. The author focuses on Melville's failures and successes in developing fictional forms to contain and express metaphysical speculations.