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Abstracts: MLA 2006--Philadelphia.(Modern Language Association of America)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20070301
Author:Bernardini, Craig; Hardack, Richard; Inge, M. Thomas; Laist, Randy; Prchal, Tim

Melville in the Popular Imagination

Herman Melville, along with Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain among American writers, has always held a special place in our popular culture. In his own day, he was widely known as the man who lived among the cannibals, and today he is considered the author of difficult works that challenge the minds and imaginations of readers. Nearly all of his novels and many of his stories have been adapted more than once to the motion picture screen, radio, television, drama, symphonic productions, opera, comic books, graphic novels, and other media. ...

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