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Title Ahab / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publication Info. New York : Chelsea House, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  813.09 MELVILLE AHA    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Major literary characters
Major literary characters.
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.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Characters -- Captain Ahab.
Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
Whaling in literature.
Sailors in literature.
Added Author Bloom, Harold.
ISBN 0791009335
9780791009338
0791009882 paperback
9780791009888 paperback
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