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Author Bercaw Edwards, Mary K

Title Cannibal Old Me : Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
Published Kent State University Press, 2013

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Contents Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Where the Wild Things Are": Questioning Typee; 2. "Six Months at Sea! Yes, Reader, as I Live": Sailor Talk; 3. "They Say They Don't Like Sailor's Flesh, It's Too Salt": Cannibal Talk; 4. "Their Gestures Shame the Very Brutes": Missionary Talk; 5. "Cannibal Old Me": The Development of Melville's Narrative Voice; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Technique
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Travel -- South Pacific Ocean
SUBJECT Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast
Subject Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
Language and languages
Narration (Rhetoric)
Technique
Travel
South Pacific Ocean
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1306305012
9781306305013