Name: Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London (en Inglés)
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Author: Bercaw Edwards, Mary K.
ISBN: 9781802075410

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Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards

Editorial

Liverpool University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

296

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781802075410

Categorías

Estudios literarios: c. 1800-c. 1900
Literatura comparada
Historia marítima

Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London (en Inglés)"

This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer's multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as 'theater, ' the varied and multiple registers of 'sailor talk, ' and the foundational role of maritime language in the lives and works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London. The book also includes nods to James Fenimore Cooper, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Meticulous scholarly research underpins the close readings of literary texts and the scrupulously detailed biographical accounts of three major sailor-writers. The author's own lived experience as a seafarer adds a refreshingly materialist dimension to the subtle literary readings. The book represents a valuable addition to a growing scholarly and political interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor's viewpoint and listening to sailors' voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.