Description |
xvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Major literary characters |
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Major literary characters.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index. |
Summary |
Essays to help you understand and appreciate Melville's novel, Moby Dick, and especially the character Captain Ahab. |
Contents |
The analysis of character -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Critical extracts -- The fate of the ungodly god-like man / F.O. Matthiessen -- Captain Ahab: modern promethean / Maurice Friedman -- Ahab's entropism and Ishmael's cyclicism / Robert Zoellner -- Reading Ahab / Brainard Cowan -- Moby-Dick and the American 1848 / Michael Paul Rogin -- Ahab's heresy / William B. Dillingham -- Moby-Dick, Napoleon, and the workers of the world / Larry J. Reynolds -- A thing writ in water: Allan Melvill's epitaph / Neil L. Tolchin -- A mutual, joint-stock world / Edward J. Ahearn -- Incomparable America / Leo Bersani. |
Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Characters -- Captain Ahab.
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Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
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Whaling in literature.
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Sailors in literature.
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Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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ISBN |
0791009335 |
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9780791009338 |
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0791009882 paperback |
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9780791009888 paperback |
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