Ungraspable phantom : essays on Moby-Dick / edited by John Bryant, Mark K Bercaw Edwards, and Timothy Marr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryant, John, editor.

Edwards, Mary K. Bercaw, editor.

Marr, Timothy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick--Congresses.

Melville, Herman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface: "To Fight Some Other World"

Introduction: Renderings of the Whale

Constructing Moby-Dick: Breakdown and Redemption

Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened: The Astman Distinguished Lecture

"Ungainly Gambols" and Circumnavigating the Truth: Breaking the Narrative of Moby-Dick

"Chiefly Known by His Rod": The Book of Jonah, Mapple's Sermon, and Scapegoating

Man, Mind, Whale

Filling the Void: A Lacanian Angle of Vision on Moby-Dick

Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Depressive Mind: Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask as Symbolic Charaters

Correspondences: Paranoiac Lexicographers and Melvillean Heroes

Moby-Dick and Law

"Deadly Voids and Unbidden Infidelities": Death, Memory, and Law in Moby-Dick

"I Stand Alone Here upon an Open Sea": Starbuck and the Limits of Positive Law

Reading and Mapping

Morality and Rhetoric in Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick's Lessons: or How Reading Might Save One's Life

Mapping and Measurement in Moby-Dick

Flood-Gates of the Wonder World: Race and the Americas

"In This Simple Savage Old Rules Would Not Apply": Cetology and the Subject of Race in Moby-Dick

"Kings of the Upside-Down World": Challenging White Hegemony in Moby-Dick

"So Spanishly Poetic": Moby-Dick's Doubloon and Latin America

Dreaming a Dream of Interracial Bonds: From Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick

Very Like a Whale: Moby-Dick in Translation

"There's another rendering now": On Translating Moby-Dick into German

The Brazilian Whale

Modern Breachings: Moby-Dick on Stage and Web

Leviathanic Revelations: Laurie Anderson's, Rinde Eckert's, and John Barrymore's Moby Dicks

Feminizing Moby-Dick: Contemporary Women Perform the Whale

Fusing with the Muse: Eckert's Great Whales as Homage and Prophecy.

"Lying in Various Attitudes": Staging Melville's Pip in Digital Media

General Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 24, 2017).

ISBN:

9781631010309

1631010301

OCLC:

983739388