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Who speaks in Melville's poems?(ALA 2006--San Francisco)(Herman Melville)
From: Leviathan
Date: 20061001
Author:Barrett, Faith
From Battle-Pieces, to Clarel, to John Marr, to Timoleon, Melville works with an extraordinary range of poetic speakers and stances, exploring the generic limits of the lyric and the narrative poem and building both dialogue and personae into his poetic texts. Who are these speakers, and what is at stake for Melville the poet in his exploration of these stances? How do Melville's poetic voices represent tensions between self and other, North and South, East and West, faith and doubt, past and future? How do Melville's poetic texts signal transitions or developments in ...
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