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Title
In pursuit of Moby-Dick : of whales and their gods / Joseph S. Catalano.
ISBN
9783031403576 electronic book
3031403576 electronic book
9783031403569
3031403568
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 129 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-40357-6 doi
Call Number
PS2387 .C38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.3
Summary
This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael's, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab's, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales and whaling, which has not received significant critical attention. While each of these perspectives compete for prominence in the narrative, Ahab and Ishmael's stories have often distracted from the vital significance of the whaling narrative as what outlasts Ahab's obsessive mission. Catalano rights this wrong by coming to a strikingly original and thought-provoking conclusion which becomes the heart of the book's argument: "the unity of Melville's book comes, first, from the way the numerous literary, philosophical, and religious reflections are rooted in those magnificent beings, whales and in the men and ships that pursue them, and, second, in the way these reflections illuminate our own lives." Joseph S. Catalono is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University, USA. Some of his previous publications include Thinking Matter: Consciousness From Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre (2000), Reading Sartre: An Invitation...(2010), and The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (2021).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 19, 2023).
Series
Palgrave pivot.
Chapter 1: No Need to Rush
Chapter 2: The Book Itself
Chapter 3: Etymology and Extracts
Chapter 4 A Tale Twice Told
Chapter 5 Ishmael and Queequeg
Chapter 6 Going Whaling and a Hint of Ahab
Chapter 7 Ahab as Captain and Ahab as Ahab
Chapter 8 Ahab and Moby Dick
Chapter 9: The Town-Ho's Story and Other Gams
Chapter 10: Whales! Conversation, Art, Dining, Business, and Poetry
Chapter 11: Ahab's Leg and Ahab's life
Chapter 12: Conclusions, The Unity of Moby-Dick, and A Critical Reflectione.
