Hershel Parker Livres
Hershel Parker est professeur émérite à l'Université du Delaware et une autorité reconnue sur Herman Melville. Ses travaux explorent en profondeur la vie et l'œuvre de Melville, se concentrant particulièrement sur son évolution en tant que poète et les processus internes qui ont façonné son génie littéraire. Les recherches méticuleuses et l'approche analytique de Parker offrent de nouvelles perspectives sur l'un des auteurs américains les plus importants.
Published in two volumes, the newest edition of THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE presents the work of 212 writers--38 newly included. From trickster tales of the Native American tradition to bestsellers of early women writers to postmodernism, this edition conveys the diversity of American literature from its origins to the present. Volume 2 covers the period of 1865 to the present.
Typee
A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas - Definitive and Uncensored
Set in the paradise of a South Sea island, "Typee" is a combination of fact and fiction. The tale is a distortion of the life of the Typees and foreshadows the metaphysical preoccupations in Melville's later work with its depiction of the evil and mystery lurking beneath the idyllic setting.