| Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick Contributor(s): Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. (Editor), Bryant, John (Editor), Marr, Timothy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1606350684 ISBN-13: 9781606350683 Publisher: Kent State University Press OUR PRICE: $58.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference The twenty-one essays collected in "Ungraspable Phantom" are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel's problematic structure, its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and post-Freudian psychology, and its rhetoric. They also present fresh information on new areas of interest: Melville's creative process, law and jurisprudence, Freemasonry and labor, race, Latin Americanism, and the Native American. Scholars, students, and readers of Moby-Dick will find this collection of essays fresh and insightful. |