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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Cody Marrs (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Georgia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.428kg ISBN: 9780192871725ISBN 10: 0192871722 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 02 February 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface: Beauty in a Time of Pain Introduction 1: Ancient Beauty in Timoleon 2: Floral Beauty in Weeds and Wildings 3: Appalling Beauty in Moby-Dick Postscript: A Note on Method NotesReviewsIn this uplifting, highly readable book, Cody Marrs cements his status as one of the very best critics of Melville's work. We travel in these pages through pragmatism, aesthetics, the decentering of humanity, and the history of American literary studies, and at the same time, by means of Marrs' rigorously sensitive readings, we sink deeper into the textures and rhythms of Melville's writing. I feel closer, at the end of this book, to where Melville was intuitively trying to go. * Geoffrey Sanborn, Amherst College * Cody Marrs enables us to see an aspect of Melville's writing that has always been before our eyes but has never before been regarded with such acuity: a sustained attention to beauty as a shared, transformative experience, defined in relation to suffering and violence, that connects perceivers to the wider world. Marrs amplifies our experience of Melville-and 'experience' is a key term for him, as he redirects attention not only to the significance of beauty in Melville's fiction, poetry, and journals but also to the experience of reading literature and literary criticism. * Samuel Otter, UC Berkeley * In this uplifting, highly readable book, Cody Marrs cements his status as one of the very best critics of Melville's work. We travel in these pages through pragmatism, aesthetics, the decentering of humanity, and the history of American literary studies, and at the same time, by means of Marrs' rigorously sensitive readings, we sink deeper into the textures and rhythms of Melville's writing. I feel closer, at the end of this book, to where Melville was intuitively trying to go. * Geoffrey Sanborn, Amherst College * Cody Marrs enables us to see an aspect of Melville's writing that has always been before our eyes but has never before been regarded with such acuity: a sustained attention to beauty as a shared, transformative experience, defined in relation to suffering and violence, that connects perceivers to the wider world. Marrs amplifies our experience of Melville-and 'experience' is a key term for him, as he redirects attention not only to the significance of beauty in Melville's fiction, poetry, and journals but also to the experience of reading literature and literary criticism. * Samuel Otter, UC Berkeley * Author InformationCody Marrs is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and writes about American literature. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War and Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War; the editor of The New Melville Studies; the General Editor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition; and a co-editor of Timelines of American Literature. His work has also appeared in journals such as American Literature, J19, and American Literary History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |