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Why read Moby-Dick? / Nathaniel Philbrick.
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| Authors: |
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
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| Call number: |
813.3 Melville PHI |
| Publisher: |
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011. |
| Publication date: |
2011. |
| Subject: |
Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Title: |
Why read Moby-Dick? / Nathaniel Philbrick. |
| Physical description: |
x, 131 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note: |
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. |
| Summary note: |
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. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131). |
| ISBN: |
9780670022991 (hbk.) :
0670022993 (hbk.) |
| LCCN: |
2011019766 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1316643
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| Bib No.: |
1316643 |
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