Literature and Lore of the SeaPatricia Ann Carlson Rodopi, 1986 - 288 Seiten Distributor statement from label on ser. t.p. |
Inhalt
The Presence of Walden in Joshua | 161 |
Poes Other Beautiful Woman | 176 |
Whitmans Liquid | 185 |
Melvilles TruthSeeker and the Sea | 193 |
Inner and Outer Seas in Dickinson Dana Cooper | 202 |
Lore is a FourLetter Word | 215 |
The Selchie in Legend and Literature | 225 |
Four Recent American Novelists | 232 |
Rolvaags New World Sea | 244 |
Death and the Mermaid in Baroque | 256 |
Boat Names and the Poetics of Newport Waters | 275 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventure Ahab Ahab's American Amsterdam boat Brassey British Bulkington Cape Horn Captain century character Clippers Conrad Cooper crew Cutty Sark Dana death deck earth essay experience fiction fish Ghita Hansa Hayden heart Henry Herman Melville human Ibid imagination inner sea Ishmael island James Fenimore Cooper Joshua Slocum land Leo Marx literary lives London lore Lubbock mariner Mast mate Melville's Merchant Service mermaid metaphor Moby Dick Moby-Dick Mystic narrative narrator nature nautical navigation Navy never ocean officers Paracelsus passage passengers Pequod perhaps Poe's poem prairie Queequeg Raoul reader Richard Henry Dana rock Rolvaag romantic sailing ships sailing-ship sailors sea literature sea novels seafaring seamanship seamen Selchie sense ship's shore Slocum spirit steamship storm story suggests symbol terror Thoreau USS Monitor vessel voyage waves whale Whitman wind Windjammers Wing-And-Wing writing Wyatt York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have...
Seite 6 - dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me...
Seite 13 - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.
Seite 8 - She drove in the dark to leeward, She struck — not a reef or a rock But the combs of a smother of sand: night drew her Dead to the Kentish Knock...