Billy Budd (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Title | Billy Budd (MAXNotes Literature Guides) PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Minkowitz |
Publisher | Research & Education Assoc. |
Total Pages | 77 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 073867186X |
REA's MAXnotes for Herman Melville's Billy Budd MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Title | Herman Melville's Billy Budd PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Minkowitz |
Publisher | Research & Education Assoc. |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Capital punishment in literature |
ISBN | 9780878910076 |
REA's MAXnotes for Herman Melville's Billy Budd MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Billy Budd
Title | Billy Budd PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770485759 |
“Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?” asked Henry David Thoreau. The question has never been academic, but in 1924, when Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor was published posthumously, we understood better than ever why. An uneasy if beautiful account of the human cost of realpolitik, Billy Budd, Sailor asks how far we should go to protect the status quo. When does the reaction to a security crisis become reactionary? In the novella John Claggart, master-at-arms of a British warship, alleges a sailor is talking mutiny. The sailor, Billy, isn’t just innocent of the charge; he’s a true innocent. Yet when confronted by his accuser, Billy reacts impulsively, striking Claggart. The resulting trial shows the horrors that can follow from a civilized society following its own laws. This Broadview Edition is based on the authoritative Hayford-Sealts copy-text of Billy Budd. The introduction distills the long and complex critical conversation about the work since its publication, and the historical appendices feature materials on mutiny, capital and corporal punishment, philosophical pessimism, sexuality, and the rule of law.
Reading Billy Budd
Title | Reading Billy Budd PDF eBook |
Author | Hershel Parker |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780810109629 |
In this study of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, renowned Melville scholar Hershel Parker provides the fullest introduction to and analysis of this work to date. It is the first complete reading of Billy Budd to draw on the definitive but neglected Hayford-Sealts Genetic Text. For the first time, it places Billy Budd in the context of Melville's writings and projects of the last decade of his life; and it is the first to present the work as a product of the post-Gilded Age and fin-de-siecle period rather than of the mid-century high romanticism of Moby-Dick.
Sula (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Title | Sula (MAXNotes Literature Guides) PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Price Davis |
Publisher | Research & Education Assoc. |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 0738671347 |
REA's MAXnotes for Toni Morrison's Sula MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each section of the work is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Jazz (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Title | Jazz (MAXNotes Literature Guides) PDF eBook |
Author | Celeste Bullock |
Publisher | Research & Education Assoc. |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 0738672084 |
REA's MAXnotes for Toni Morrison's Jazz MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Title | Uncle Tom's Cabin (MAXNotes Literature Guides) PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Tang |
Publisher | Research & Education Assoc. |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 0738673277 |
REA's MAXnotes for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.