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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v36.i36.records.utf8:11101714:1277
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01277nam a22002778a 4500
001 2008035880
003 DLC
005 20080908094713.0
008 080907s2009 ohu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008035880
020 $a9780873389785 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aps-----
050 00 $aPS2388.T4$bE49 2009
082 00 $a813/.3$222
100 1 $aEdwards, Mary K. Bercaw.
245 10 $aCannibal old me :$bspoken sources in Melville's early works /$cMary K. Bercaw Edwards.
260 $aKent, Ohio :$bKent State University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0901
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- "Where the wild things are": questioning typee --"Six months at sea! yes, reader, as I live": sailor talk -- "They say they don't like sailor's flesh, it's too salt": cannibal talk -- "Their gestures shame the very brutes": missionary talk -- "Cannibal old me": the development of Melville's narrative voice.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xTechnique.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xTravel$zSouth Pacific Ocean.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xKnowledge$xLanguage and languages.
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y19th century.