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Author Edwards, Mary K. Bercaw.

Title Cannibal old me : spoken sources in Melville's early works / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.

Publication Info. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2009]
2009

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
Contents Introduction -- "Where the wild things are" : questioning Typee --"Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live" : sailor talk -- "They say they don't like sailor's flesh, it's too salt" : cannibal talk -- "Their gestures shame the very brutes" : missionary talk -- "Cannibal old me" : the development of Melville's narrative voice.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Technique.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Travel -- South Pacific Ocean.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Edwards, Mary K. Bercaw. Cannibal old me : spoken sources in Melville's early works. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2009] xxii, 252 pages 9781606351406 (DLC) 2008035880
ISBN 9781606351406
9781612775876 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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