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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2003
... reading poems of consolation. This seemed to many people a natural thing to do, I’m sure. Art is commonly thought to have a redemptive task in difficult times. The poem that I will discuss here, Herman Melville’s “Shiloh,” was written in New York at a similar time of violent crisis. The poem clearly...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2003
... legitimate force. The other is represented by Herman Melville’s unorthodox and distinctly nontriumphalist Civil War poem “Shiloh,” which, with its pastoral image of swal- lows skimming indifferently over a freshly bloodied battlefield, sets up...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 411–422.
Published: 01 May 2000
... that respects only the degradation of the “bottom line.” Reverse the direction of the poet Charles Olson’s reading of Melville’s mod- ernism: Melville’s line tracing the American frontier’s outward extension across the Pacific; his foreknowledge...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 127–158.
Published: 01 January 1995
... . “Hawaii's Special Allure Cries Out for Restructuring.” Honolulu Advertiser , 17 May , B-1 . London , Jack . 1985 . South Sea Tales. Edited by A. Grove Day. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing. Lyons , Paul . “The Figure of the Tattooed Cannibal and Its Deconstruction: Herman Melville's Typee...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 347–363.
Published: 01 May 1999
... whale in Melville’s Moby Dick. But Ulysses, through his stratagems, insists on preserving the interval between the real and the imaginary that the Sirens’ song invites him to cross. He triumphs over the Sirens and lives, whereas Ahab succumbs...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.
Published: 01 January 2013
... 76 both charming and generative. He was passionate about Herman Melville; he felt Interview: himself into the writer. His illustrations to Melville’s Pierre make this evident. Thomas Laqueur His production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute speaks to the same sort of ability to translate something...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 431–440.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Historiography, Hull- House Domesticity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. James, C. L. R. 2001. Reprint. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. Original edition, New York: C. L. R. James, 1953...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 499–506.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in suburbia, they move back to the township. You might work in the suburb, or you might like hanging out in Melville, but at the end of the day something or someone will make you go back to the township. ND: Most people use taxis and trains...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 587–597.
Published: 01 September 1996
.... Melville, Stephen, and Bill Readings, eds. Vision and Textuality. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Michaels, Walter Benn. Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Mumford, Laura Stempel. Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 144–154.
Published: 01 January 1991
... of minor characters who are “really” not minor. In ‘Wuthering Heights,” Emily BrontE, a subtle subversive, has Catherine bitten by a male bulldog. Melville’s white whale? probably apenis. Grab a harpoon! The supplanting of esthetic by political responses to literature makes literature pri...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 387–403.
Published: 01 May 1999
... routes; no Herman Melville of global transmissions will arise. Lives are not risked. No coaling sta- 2. See Eugene Van Cleef, Trade Centers and Trade Routes (New York: Appleton-Century, 1937); James Francis Horrabin, The Opening-Up...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 521–538.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., in the sight of all his fellows, should challenge the policeman’s gun, and not only that, but the policeman’s right to be in the ghetto at all. 9 In a scene that eerily mirrors Herman Melville’s Babo holding a shaving razor in “Benito Cereno,” in “No Name” Baldwin recalls a barber who refuses...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 577–598.
Published: 01 September 2009
...; Israel, no. 1; George Washington, no. 4; genome, no. 9; agriculture, no. 6; Herman Melville, no. 3; Internet, no. 5; Magna Carta, no. 2; evolution, no. 3; epilepsy, no. 6. In January 2009 Carr repeated the study. Now Wikipedia was the top...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and Parikka Jussi , 1 – 24 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Imafuku Ryūta . 2008 . Guntō: Sekairon . Tokyo : Iwanami shoten . Imafuku Ryūta . 2016 . “ A Castaway Ishmael Who Turned to Stone in the Amami Islands .” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 18 , no. 1 : 84...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 January 1999
... argued that Afro-Modernism and the black Atlantic represents a counterculture 1. See Melville J. Herskovitz, The New World Negro: Selected papers in Afroamerican Studies, ed. Frances Herskovitz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2009
... these arrangements, signaled but not contained by discussions of good and evil and sacrifice and sacrificial 14. In a reading of Herman Melville’s civil war poem “Shiloh,” Michael Warner examines how violence can be made scandalous. See Warner...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 367–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
... registers of meaning-making within culture. While the earliest research in the field kept returning to a denun- ciation of three prominent literary figures—Shakespeare’s Richard III, Melville’s 376 PC 13.3-03 M&S 9/14/01 3...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 255–285.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of German ide alist literature, novels and poems by Goethe and Novalis, plays by Schiller and Büchner — American literature does have high points like Melville, James, Gertrude Stein, Toomer, Faulkner, Hemingway, Richard Wright, or Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep , but also a lot of dull stuff. It’s true...