Brian Yothers - Sacred Uncertainty : Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville's Career read ebook DOC, EPUB, DJV
9780810131798 English 081013179X Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Melville's work is notably shot through with allusions to other writers and thinkers, whom he regarded as his truest interlocutors--the figures of genius from whom he received, as he eloquently stated it in "Hawthorne and His Mosses," a "shock of recognition." There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville's affirmations of (and arguments with) these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville's marginalia for clues to Melville's thinking about self, others, and difference. His interrogations yield a richer understanding of one of the more vexing aspects of the great American novelist's work., Yothers "Sacred Uncertainty" examines Melville s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville s marginalia for clues to Melville s thinking about self, other, and difference. "Sacred Uncertainty" provides a much needed exploration of Melville s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference."
9780810131798 English 081013179X Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Melville's work is notably shot through with allusions to other writers and thinkers, whom he regarded as his truest interlocutors--the figures of genius from whom he received, as he eloquently stated it in "Hawthorne and His Mosses," a "shock of recognition." There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville's affirmations of (and arguments with) these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville's marginalia for clues to Melville's thinking about self, others, and difference. His interrogations yield a richer understanding of one of the more vexing aspects of the great American novelist's work., Yothers "Sacred Uncertainty" examines Melville s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville s marginalia for clues to Melville s thinking about self, other, and difference. "Sacred Uncertainty" provides a much needed exploration of Melville s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference."