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• catalog abstract ""In this study Shawn Thomson undertakes a consistent and deliberate approach to the form of the novel in an attempt to allow its elements, organization, and phenomena to answer questions about larger relationships and patterns. Thomson's approach asks: What is the position of the author in relation to the work, what in fact is a center of consciousness, and what is real in Moby-Dick?" "At the center of the approach is an examination of Ahab's enthusiasm and its parallels to Shelley's sense of the Promethean mission of the artist. Shelley exists as an animating presence, enlivening the fundamental oppositions of the novel: the vertical ascension of Ahab's drama and Ishmael's horizontal integration of feeling, thought, and experience.". "Thomson explores Ahab's unyielding Romantic imagination - an imagination that will not be obstructed or overshadowed by the gross disorder and catastrophic face of nature. Ahab's passionate idealism is an extension of Shelley's powerful imagination, an obsessive energy that broadens and surpasses Classical and Christian idealism.". "Thomson's line of inquiry places Shelley's Romantic ontology in the industrial world and hostile environment of Moby-Dick. Ishmael uses metaphor to create an emergent description of the world, building a knowledge of the whale and defining his perspective of the universe. Ahab shows the failings of inspiration. His being is associated with dominating towers, monumental heights of grandeur, and the mythmaking act. Thomson demonstrates how Melville tests and, ultimately, collapses Shelley's passionate idealism and constructs a new reality in its place.". "Borrowing from Oliver Sacks, Shakespeare, Richard Wright, contemporary art criticism, geology, and geography, this study encompasses this eccentric American novel by building upon traditional approaches and bringing new perspectives into the discussion. Thomson blends science, aesthetics, and theory into an absorbing and full reading of Melville's art."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b12027597.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Borrowing from Oliver Sacks, Shakespeare, Richard Wright, contemporary art criticism, geology, and geography, this study encompasses this eccentric American novel by building upon traditional approaches and bringing new perspectives into the discussion. Thomson blends science, aesthetics, and theory into an absorbing and full reading of Melville's art."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description ""In this study Shawn Thomson undertakes a consistent and deliberate approach to the form of the novel in an attempt to allow its elements, organization, and phenomena to answer questions about larger relationships and patterns. Thomson's approach asks: What is the position of the author in relation to the work, what in fact is a center of consciousness, and what is real in Moby-Dick?" "At the center of the approach is an examination of Ahab's enthusiasm and its parallels to Shelley's sense of the Promethean mission of the artist. Shelley exists as an animating presence, enlivening the fundamental oppositions of the novel: the vertical ascension of Ahab's drama and Ishmael's horizontal integration of feeling, thought, and experience.".".
• catalog description ""Thomson explores Ahab's unyielding Romantic imagination - an imagination that will not be obstructed or overshadowed by the gross disorder and catastrophic face of nature. Ahab's passionate idealism is an extension of Shelley's powerful imagination, an obsessive energy that broadens and surpasses Classical and Christian idealism.".".
• catalog description ""Thomson's line of inquiry places Shelley's Romantic ontology in the industrial world and hostile environment of Moby-Dick. Ishmael uses metaphor to create an emergent description of the world, building a knowledge of the whale and defining his perspective of the universe. Ahab shows the failings of inspiration. His being is associated with dominating towers, monumental heights of grandeur, and the mythmaking act. Thomson demonstrates how Melville tests and, ultimately, collapses Shelley's passionate idealism and constructs a new reality in its place.".".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-232) and index.".
• catalog description "The felt and seen: the monumental and the metaphysical, language-maker and shark massacre -- The universalizing force at the weather-bow: discovering the unlimited prospect of the novel (chaps 1-19) -- The shape of experience: a strange and vaporous center of consciousness (chaps 20-98) -- A new world of architecture: the marble steeple and the natural bridge (chaps 99-135) -- The seamless whole: the equivalent oppositions of Moby-Dick.".
• catalog extent "238 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Romantic architecture of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.".
• catalog identifier "0838638597 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Romantic architecture of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Romantic architecture of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "813/.3 21".
• catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.".
• catalog subject "PS2384.M62 T45 2001".
• catalog subject "Romanticism United States.".
• catalog subject "Sea stories, American History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Whales in literature.".
• catalog subject "Whaling in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The felt and seen: the monumental and the metaphysical, language-maker and shark massacre -- The universalizing force at the weather-bow: discovering the unlimited prospect of the novel (chaps 1-19) -- The shape of experience: a strange and vaporous center of consciousness (chaps 20-98) -- A new world of architecture: the marble steeple and the natural bridge (chaps 99-135) -- The seamless whole: the equivalent oppositions of Moby-Dick.".
• catalog title "The romantic architecture of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / Shawn Thomson.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".