Beyond the Walls.: Being with Each Other in Herman Melville's Clarel

Beyond the Walls.: Being with Each Other in Herman Melville's Clarel

Laura López Peña

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FörlagPublicacions de la Universitat de València
ISBN9788491341680

The present volume analyzes the political project manifested in the narrative poem by Melville 'Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land'. Published in 1876, this work is centered on the necessities, the possibilities and the difficulties of intersubjectivity as a means to transcend the obstacles posed by individualism and traditional communities.

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