Of Billy's Time: Temporality in Melville's Billy Budd.
Billy Budd is replete with invocations of various temporalities. This article brings the tale's 'juggling temporalities' to bear upon the questions of sexuality that the story also addresses and shows that Billy Budd is a searching exploration of (and meditation on) the profound historicity of sexua...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 23 - 38 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
2015
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