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Melville
Herman. 1819--91, US novelist and short-story writer. Among his works, Moby Dick (1851) and Billy Budd (written 1891, published 1924) are outstanding


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None of Martin's Melvillean epic canvases were on view here, but these smaller works--some thick and impastoed, others painted over and over in the service of a spare, graphic economy (End of the Movie .
This epistemological double bind of explicit denial and yet implicit knowledge is reminiscent of the Melvillean curse of "the Negro Babo.
Atufal's strange appearance is a variant of what William Meyer, discussing metaphysics, calls the Melvillean hypervisual: "the treatment of vision as the ultimate .
 
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