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... American Ishmaels doomed to be cut away from the human vineyard " 16- had the concept of an " Ishmael of solitude " ( 46 ) , a philosopher alienated from his fellow men to a much greater extent than Melville's Ishmael . In the opening ...
... American Ishmaels doomed to be cut away from the human vineyard " 16- had the concept of an " Ishmael of solitude " ( 46 ) , a philosopher alienated from his fellow men to a much greater extent than Melville's Ishmael . In the opening ...
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... America , all of her space , the malice , the root . Olson's approach is monolithic . A comprehensive sweep of American topography leads him to the two alternatives in American literature . Melville is presented as a participant in the ...
... America , all of her space , the malice , the root . Olson's approach is monolithic . A comprehensive sweep of American topography leads him to the two alternatives in American literature . Melville is presented as a participant in the ...
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... America . He interprets Melville's experi- ence of being witness to the failure - the tragedy - of the American experiment through greed , " solipsism , " the lust to possess space . This is as explicit as Olson gets on the subject of ...
... America . He interprets Melville's experi- ence of being witness to the failure - the tragedy - of the American experiment through greed , " solipsism , " the lust to possess space . This is as explicit as Olson gets on the subject of ...
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