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| Title | : | Billy Budd, Sailor |
| Author | : | Herman Melville |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2006 by Simon Schuster (first published 1924) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. American |
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Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 3.12 | 14406 Users | 890 Reviews
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Dear High School Curriculum Writers: I am positive that you can find a better novel than this one to use when introducing symbolism and extended metaphor to developing readers. "Christ-figure" is the most over-used of these extended metaphors; over-used to the point where its offensiveness ceases to be about the in-your-face religious aspect of it and becomes instead about the simple over-use of the symbols. If you want to "go there" with symbolism and metaphor and have high school age kids the ways in which literature can illuminate our experience not by representing it literally but by unhinging from it, try helping these students discover Garcia-Marquez or Allende. And that's just assuming you want to stay in the "safe" territory of the Western hemisphere. Ever your advisor, me.Specify Books Supposing Billy Budd, Sailor
| Original Title: | Billy Budd, Sailor |
| ISBN: | 1416523723 (ISBN13: 9781416523727) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Based On Books Billy Budd, Sailor
Ratings: 3.12 From 14406 Users | 890 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books Billy Budd, Sailor
Melville, what are you about man? That's just too much telling for the story's own good!In Billy Budd, Sailor we have what could've been a grand, character-driven swashbuckling adventure. However, Melville apparently wanted to write about sailing and the early navy, and must have felt he needed to throw in a story to justify the book. The two subjects needed to merge more seamlessly for this to work. Otherwise two separate books should have been published, a treatise and a tale, for they are two
I read this in my teens. It depressed the ever-loving heck out of me.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges. Herman Melville, Billy BuddGo, Herman Melville! Crazy as this sounds, I think I enjoyed this story much more than Moby-Dick (this could be just due to the fact that I only had to read thirty-one chapters of plot and dialogue as opposed to one hundred and thirty-four chapters about whaling, anchors, and blubber!). Some really great symbolism, themes, and Christian allegory goin' on here. While I could write a lengthy discussion about
Billy Budd is one of those extremely rare examples of a movie that is better than the book. Melville's original fails to take advantage of a book's natural ability to get inside the heads of its characters and, in so doing, gives up the advantage that books so traditionally have over their film adaptations. Instead, he wastes pages and pages on irrelevant physical descriptions which, of course, are taken care of in a split second when presented on screen. The details of the story are presented
From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:The playwright Keith Dewhurst adapts Herman Melville's powerful story of persecution and retribution in the aftermath of the Naval Mutinies at Nore and Spithead in 1797. He also tells the story of the man who wrote it. Part of Radio 3's Britten centenary weekend, this play provides an alternative context to Britten's opera, which is also being broadcast on the station. Herman Melville was a man who himself had more than a passing acquaintance with mutiny. There was
Billy Budd adds to the evidence in Moby Dick that Melville was a master of the English language and a master of all things nautical. It's a great, short tale of good, evil and the sometimes harrowing injustice of circumstance. It was fascinating to see in Melville's last work, the dramatic difference in his earlier writing and the style of Billy Budd. For example, comparing two completely random sentences, first from Typee:In the course of a few days Toby had recovered from the effects of his
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