Hershel Parker is an editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's The Confidence-Man. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry). Harrison Hayford is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry), and editor of the Library of America Melville, in addition to many other works.
For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings, as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg. Evoking Melville's fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846. The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville's interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person's "queenly personality" (Chapter 119). That theme (focused on Melville, Ishmael, and Ahab) is pursued in "A Handful of Critical Challenges," from Walter E. Bezanson's classic centennial study through Harrison Hayford's meditation on "Loomings" and recent essays by Camille Paglia and John Wenke. In "Reviews and Letters by Melville," a letter has been redated and a wealth of new biographical material has been added to the footnotes, notably to Melville's "Hawthorne and His Mosses." "Analogues and Sources" retains classic pieces by J. N. Reynolds and Owen Chase, as well as new findings by Geoffrey Sanborn and Steven Olsen-Smith. "Reviews of Moby-Dick" emphasizes the ongoing religious hostility toward Melville and highlights new discoveries, such as the first-known Scottish review of The Whale. "Posthumous Praise and the Melville Revival: 1893-1927" collects belated, enthusiastic praise up through that of William Faulkner. "Biographical Cross-Light" is Hershel Parker's somber look at what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family. From Foreword through Selected Bibliography, this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition is uniquely valuable as the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for study of Moby-Dick.
丰富复杂的专门知识和词汇,严肃的神学哲学思考,海风,海浪,坚硬粗壮的黑色臂膀,野蛮而精准的技艺,暴戾的性情和行为,浪漫的冒险精神……麦尔维尔典型的说教小说风格在《白鲸》里所塑造的最大戏剧性:一个知识丰富、头脑发达的个人,选择大范围伸展自己的肢体,选择身体上...
评分从寒假开始一直在看这本书,断断续续花了有两个月的时间。有时狼吞虎咽,有时逐字逐句终于看完。真的是一本巨著啊,一百三十六章(算上结尾),看完这么多的内容,忍不住吐槽一番,聊表纪念吧! 麦尔维尔大大这一生也可谓是风起云涌啊,做过水手,斗过生番,捕过鲸鱼,搞过学...
评分从寒假开始一直在看这本书,断断续续花了有两个月的时间。有时狼吞虎咽,有时逐字逐句终于看完。真的是一本巨著啊,一百三十六章(算上结尾),看完这么多的内容,忍不住吐槽一番,聊表纪念吧! 麦尔维尔大大这一生也可谓是风起云涌啊,做过水手,斗过生番,捕过鲸鱼,搞过学...
评分 评分150周年纪念版的context部分还收入了John Putnam的捕鲸船图解说明以及描绘故事情节的雕版画,另外还附航海术语词汇表。小说用典极多,觉得要真正领会还需要读好几遍。。。。
评分End of a long pilgrimage
评分tough, really tough read
评分Call me Ishmael.
评分Call me Ishmael.
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