Different Time Zones: Newtonian Time, Herman Melville and Omoo.
This essay examines the complex relationship between time and place in Herman Melville's second book, Omoo. In it I argue that Melville is intensely resistant to enumerative and deterministic models of time, and that he instead favours fluid and qualitative versions of it. Suggesting that a spatial...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 91 - 106 |
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