After the Whale
Clark Davis
The University of Alabama Press, 2021
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780817360719
- ISBN-10
- 0817360719
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Year
- 2021
- Publication date
- 2021-02-23
- Pages
- 248
- Dimensions
- 228x153x20
- Weight
- 390