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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Melville and the theme of boredom
  name:
    name part: Paliwoda, Daniel
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Boredom is a prevalent theme in Herman Melville's works. The author contends that in Melville's mature work, especially Moby Dick, boredom presents itself as an insidious presence in the lives of Melville's characters, until it matures from being a mere killer of time into a killer of souls"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction: Herman Melville's noontide demons -- Typee and Omoo: body here, mind over there -- Omoo and Mardi: searching for a theme -- White-jacket: the devil loves idle hands -- Moby-Dick: God or the devil -- "Bartleby, the Scrivener": not quite the last word -- Clarel: the noontide demon can quote Scripture, too -- Billy Budd: Ode to joy -- Conclusion.
  note: Daniel Paliwoda.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville, Herman
      name part: 1819-1891
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Boredom in literature
  classification: PS2387 .P35 2010
  classification: 813/.3
  identifier: 9780786441549 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786441542 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009036801
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090908
    record change date: 20151113134517.0
    record identifier: in00002539518