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The Piazza Tales de Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales

Autor Herman Melville
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First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno," an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is a parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, and "The Encantadas," ten allegorical sketches of the Galapagos Islands, which reveal nature to be both enchanting and horrifying. Two pieces explore themes of isolation and defeat found in Melville's great novels: "Bartelby, the Scrivener," a prophetically modern story of alienation and loss on nineteenth-century Wall Street, and "The Bell Tower," a Faustian tale about a Renaissance architect who brings about his own violent destruction. The other two works reveal Melville's mastery of very different writing styles: "The Lightning-Rod Man," a satire showcasing his talent for Dickensian comedy, and "The Piazza," the title story of the collection, which anticipates the author's later absorption with poetry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781983836909
ISBN-10: 1983836907
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg

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Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno,” along with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up “The Encantadas,” as well as three more short stories: “The Piazza,” “The Bell-Tower,” and “The Lightning-Rod Man.” This new edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free will and determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in The Piazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville’s cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville set his stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to the Pacific coast of South America and southern Europe.
This edition is especially concerned with Melville’s engagement with both political questions related to slavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short-story tradition as developed by his near-contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Recenzii

Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno,” along with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up “The Encantadas,” as well as three more short stories: “The Piazza,” “The Bell-Tower,” and “The Lightning-Rod Man.” This new edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free will and determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in The Piazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville’s cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville set his stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to the Pacific coast of South America and southern Europe.
This edition is especially concerned with Melville’s engagement with both political questions related to slavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short-story tradition as developed by his near-contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

“At last! Although the stories in The Piazza Tales have been collected and anthologized before, only in this version, with Brian Yothers’s meticulous editing, general introduction, and selection of contextual readings, do we get the book Herman Melville envisioned—for twenty-first-century readers and students. Yothers presents a seasoned novelist, but an experimental writer of tales, laboring within a hectic magazine economy and changing literary history forever. He also exhibits a Melville who responds vigorously to contemporary debates over slavery, urbanization, capitalism, and changing gender roles, and who engages with nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and religion, as well as with a transatlantic cast of canonical and popular authors. Prepare to be delighted and surprised by a Melville you may not have known existed.” — Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“In this new Broadview Press edition of Melville’s original 1856 version of The Piazza Tales, Brian Yothers provides a valuable classroom edition that includes reviews, sources and allusions, and other contemporary writings on the art of the story, on slavery and inequality, on science and philosophy, and on other topics of importance to an understanding of the diverse worlds embodied in these tales. Yothers’s illuminating introduction highlights the distinctive character of each of the stories while adroitly placing them in the context of Melville’s personal history and career as a fiction writer and poet, making an eloquent case for reading all six stories together for their imaginative variety and skillful artistry. For teachers of Melville, this compact volume fills a long-standing need.” — Christopher Sten, George Washington University
“This new edition makes a strong claim to become the Piazza Tales of choice in the undergraduate classroom. … The appendices feature many inspired choices that will amplify the literary and historical resonance of The Piazza Tales without encumbering students with lengthy supplementary readings.” — Dawn Coleman, Leviathan

Notă biografică

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. Herman Melville's writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Herman Melville: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Piazza Tales
  • “The Piazza”
  • “Bartleby”
  • “Benito Cereno”
  • “The Lightning-Rod Man”
  • “The Encantadas; or Enchanted Isles”
  • “The Bell-Tower”
Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance
  1. From Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850)
  2. From Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842)
  3. Review of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review (September 1856)
  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1852)
Appendix B: Race, Slavery, and Inequality
  1. From Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817)
  2. From Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853)
  3. From George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854)
  4. From John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams (1841)
  5. The Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire,” Brought into Key West on April 30, 1860
Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible
  1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Mariana” (1830)
  2. “Inscription for the Back of a Bank-Note” (1853)
  3. Matthew 5:38–48, King James Bible
  4. Job 3:1–26, King James Bible
  5. Judges 4:4–22, King James Bible
Appendix D: Science and Philosophy
  1. From Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches (1839)
  2. From Jonathan Edwards, A Careful and Strict Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will (1754)
  3. sFrom Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated (1777)
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