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- Title White Lies
- Author John Samson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Cornell Un
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York
- Date 1989-08-15
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780801422805 / 0801422809
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88043324
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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New. The narrative of facts-probably best exemplified in the literature of exploration-was an immensely popular genre in mid-nineteenth-century America. In White Lies, John Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives of facts-Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Israel Potter. Samson demonstrates that in these novels Melville critically rewrote the sources on which he drew, in effect making the genre itself a subject of his writing. In his introduction, Samson discusses Melville's knowledge of the genre and its ideology. He then reads each novel in terms of Melville's confrontation with its sources. In each, Samson says, an unreliable narrator represents particular ideological tendencies in Melville's sources. Melville heightens and extends these tendencies, exposes the contradictions and biases within them, and ends by showing the narrator evading or denying experiences that conflict with his ideology. According to Samson, Melville sees the concept…
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