Pierre, or, The Ambiguities, Herman Melville - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Barber, Patricia. “Melville's Self-Image as a Writer and the Image of the Writer in Pierre. In Massachusetts Studies in English III, No. 3 (Spring 1972): 65-71.

Traces parallels between Pierre as a writer and Melville himself, contending that in the novel Melville deromanticizes writing and writers.

Bell, Michael Davitt. “The Glendinning Heritage: Melville's Literary Borrowings in Pierre.” In Studies in Romanticism 12, No. 4 (Fall 1973): 741-62.

Maintains that in Pierre Melville deals with the relationship between life and art and notes that all Pierre's efforts to make his life imitate art degenerate into parody.

Berthold, Michael C. “The Prison World of Melville's Pierre and ‘Bartleby.’” In ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 33, No. 4 (4th quarter 1987): 237-52.

Discusses prison imagery in...

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