“Israel Potter”; or, the Excrescence
On Melville’s neglected “epic of the piecemeal.”
On Melville’s neglected “epic of the piecemeal.”
Over 50 years later, more than half a century, I look at the pictures. Out of boxes and other wooden and steel containers, and buried deep under other albums, come these relics of a honeymoon.
Colin Dayan writes about detachment in academic writing, writers on the edge, and Malcolm Lowry’s "Under the Volcano."