Why Read Moby-Dick?
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The gospels in this century -- Landlessness -- Desperado philosophy -- Nantucket -- Chowder -- The Pequod -- Ahab -- The anatomy of a demagogue -- Hawthorne -- The view from the masthead -- The sea -- Is there a heaven? -- A mighty, messy book -- Unflinching reality -- Poetry -- Sharks -- The enchanted calm -- Pip -- The squeeze -- The left wing -- So remorseless a havoc -- Queequeg -- Pulling dictatorship out of a hat -- Essex redux -- The inmost leaf -- Ahab's last stand -- Evil art -- Neither believer nor infidel.
Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.
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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: x, 131 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670022991
0670022993
SUBJECTS
Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.