Overview
Focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward fish.
- | Author: Clark Davis
- | Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 23, 2021
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780817360719
- | ISBN-10: 0817360719
