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- catalog abstract "An Authoritative Text Reviews and letters By Melville Analogues and sources criticism.".
- catalog contributor b1471739.
- catalog created "1978, c1977.".
- catalog date "1978".
- catalog date "1978, c1977.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1978, c1977.".
- catalog description "An Authoritative Text Reviews and letters By Melville Analogues and sources criticism.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [63]".
- catalog description "The object of this series is to provide studies of individual novels, plays and groups of poems and essays which are known to be widely read. The emphasis is on clarification and evaluation, biographical and historical facts. Moby Dick is often regarded as an impenetrably ambiguous and elusive work which can only be understood by unraveling a complex symbolism. This study questions that assumption and instead suggests a new approach to the reading of the novel. Brian Way shows, first of all, how many of the essential aspects of Moby Dick -- Melville's descriptions of the natural world, for instance, and the relationships of the main characters -- depend on a simple and direct response to the surface meaning of the prose. He then argues for a more interesting, and less misleading, notion of complexity: the novel is not a tragedy or comedy but a 'whaling voyage', with all the inclusiveness and variety such a form implies; Melville himself, moreover, had deep affinities with Shakespeare and in Moby Dick, as in King Lear, meanings and moments of vision arise out of the stress of events. Finally, the author concentrates on the three principal figures in the novel, the Whale, Captain Ahab and Ishmael, and through them identifies the values permeating Moby Dick -the bond of a common humanity and the reverence for life.".
- catalog extent "62, [1] p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0713159839".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in English literature (London, England) ; no. 69.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in English literature ; no. 69".
- catalog issued "1978".
- catalog issued "1978, c1977.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Arnold,".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The object of this series is to provide studies of individual novels, plays and groups of poems and essays which are known to be widely read. The emphasis is on clarification and evaluation, biographical and historical facts. Moby Dick is often regarded as an impenetrably ambiguous and elusive work which can only be understood by unraveling a complex symbolism. This study questions that assumption and instead suggests a new approach to the reading of the novel. Brian Way shows, first of all, how many of the essential aspects of Moby Dick -- Melville's descriptions of the natural world, for instance, and the relationships of the main characters -- depend on a simple and direct response to the surface meaning of the prose. He then argues for a more interesting, and less misleading, notion of complexity: the novel is not a tragedy or comedy but a 'whaling voyage', with all the inclusiveness and variety such a form implies; Melville himself, moreover, had deep affinities with Shakespeare and in Moby Dick, as in King Lear, meanings and moments of vision arise out of the stress of events. Finally, the author concentrates on the three principal figures in the novel, the Whale, Captain Ahab and Ishmael, and through them identifies the values permeating Moby Dick -the bond of a common humanity and the reverence for life.".
- catalog title "Herman Melville : Moby Dick / by Brian Way.".
- catalog type "text".