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| Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Sea stories Adventure fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby-Dick. New York, W.W. Norton [1967] (OCoLC)652035540 |
| Named Person: | Herman Melville |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford; Hershel Parker |
| OCLC Number: | 953128 |
| Description: | xviii, 728 p. illus. 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Forward -- The text of moby-dick -- Reviews and letters by Melville -- Analogues and sources -- Criticism -- An intellectual chowder / Evert A. Duyckinck -- A pregnant allegory / George Ripley -- A prose epic on whaling / William A. Butler -- Cause for a writ de lunatico / Anonymous -- Maniacal style and furibund story / William Harrison Ainsworth -- A marvellous odyssey / Anonymous -- Melville's flawed masterpiece, and his decline / William P. Trent -- Melville's finest performance / W. Clark Russell -- A group of minor fiction writiers / William J. Long -- The originality of moby-dick / Carl Van Doren -- Melville's composite achievement / Raymond Weaver -- A deposition from a new reader / A. Wayfarer -- Melville's enduring reputation in England / J. St. Loe Strachey -- Execrable English and fantastic grandeur / Leonard Woolf -- Moby-dick as poetic epic / Lewis Mumford -- Moby-dick vs. Huckleberry Finn / Bernard DeVoto -- Melville: not even a minor master / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Melville's quest for the ultimate / Willard Thorp -- Melville's tragically great hero / Stanley Geist -- Ishmael vs. Ahab / William Ellery Sedgwick -- Ahad and his fool / Charles Olson -- Moby-dick: work of art / Walter E. Bezanson -- Moby-dick as symbolic voyage / Charles Feidelson Jr. -- The try-works / R.W.B. Lewis -- Comic vision and technique in moby-dick / Edward Rosenberry -- Moby-dick as tragedy / Richard B. Sewall -- Characterization in moby-dick / Warner Berthoff -- The composition of moby-dick / Leon Howard. |
| Series Title: | A Norton critical edition |
| Responsibility: | Reviews and letters by Melville; Analogues and sources; Criticism. Edited by Harrison Hayford [and] Hershel Parker. Pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam. |
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