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Romanticism and Calvinism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Herman Melville (1819-1891) is a controversial author best-known for his sea fiction and masterpiece, Moby-Dick.Indeed, Moby-Dick was not well received, nor was its brilliance recognized when it was first published in 1851.As Delbanco points out, the “tornadoes Atlantic of his being,”depicted in Moby-Dick and illustrating the.
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Leviathan features a bounty of scholarly articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing of a critical, theoretical, cultural, or historical nature on the impressive body of work of American novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Published under the aegis of The Melville Society--one of the oldest single-author societies in the United States--Leviathan includes a regular feature.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville’s classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and present a complete overview of Melville’s career. Melville’s major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fi ction and poetry, including neglected works.
It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all” (16). Throughout the novel, Ishmael attempts to wrap his head around various romantic stimuli ranging from the anatomy of the whale back to the sea itself, but his efforts are met with no avail, and the preceding quote is a sort of key in itself in this regard—the key to understanding why he fails.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short.
He is a co-editor (with two other Institute Faculty) of Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick (2006) and has published on Melville in The Historical Guide to Herman Melville, Melville and Women, Melville “Among the Nations,” The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, the third Norton Critical edition of Moby-Dick, and in the journal.
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The Innumerable Meanings of Moby Dick Call me Ishmael. The first line of this story begins with an assertion of self-identity. Before the second page is reached, it becomes quite clear to me that within this assertion of self-identity lay an enticing universality. Ishmael represents every man.
The twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship.
Dinner will be followed by a free public lecture titled “Moby-Dick in American Popular Culture,” presented by Dr. Timothy Marr, at 7:15 p.m. in the Cook Memorial Theater. Co-editor of “Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick,” Professor Marr teaches American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He serves as an.
Presenting the novel in a readable and affordable format, this version of Benito Cereno is accompanied by light and helpful annotations and supporting editorial content to increase your connection to the central themes of the book.
Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their.
Moby Dick is widely considered one of the greatest literary creations in history. The denseness of meaning, infinite possibility of interpretation, and ambiguity of implications give the text many layers. Therefore, knowing that the trustworthiness of a work of fiction is always somewhat unreliable, the audience must seek to determine whether Ishmael, Melville’s all-knowing, omnipresent.
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Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her previous publications include Melville’s Sources (1987), Herman Melville’s Whaling Years (2004), and “Ungraspable Phantom”: Essays on Moby-Dick (Kent State University Press, 2006) that she coedited with John Bryant and Timothy Marr.