NP: Moby Dick

[ish mailian]

Yes, the Nortons are excellent and because they are a standard in
undergraduate courses can be picked up "used" (M-D, like GR is a book
many buy but never finish) on the cheap.

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=11008

Scholars, like Professor Parker,  may prefer the Northwestern-Newberry
Edition: Moby Dick, or The Whale, Volume 6, Scholarly Edition
http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/moby-dick-or-whale-0


Once you are into the book, I hope we can discuss it and how it may
have influenced Pynchon and his generation (Kesey & Co.)  and more
recently....

When and if you have a more specific focus, let me know and I will try
to make a suggestion or two.

A beautiful book:
AHAB'S WIFE
Or, The Star-Gazer.
By Sena Jeter Naslund.

 https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/03/reviews/991003.03derast.html



On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> If .99c can be spent for a Kindle book, free app for, I recommend the Norton
> Critical
> edition as the one that could be used if one had no other sources.
>
> Go look at it at Amazon, all kinds of biographical, historical, very
> interesting stuff and critical essays
> and annotations....
>
> There are lotsa good full books on Moby Dick. Lotsa good essays. One can
> find lotsa critical
> discussion via Moby Dick and Melville in Google Books, though often not the
> whole piece but intros,
> summaries, riffs from the books, etc.
>
> In libraries, one can find the works of those who started the rebirth of
> Melville in the beginning of the 20th Century.
> Matthiessen, Newton Arvin and the Plist-known name, Lewis Mumford.
>
> Herschel Parker has written the major full definitive biography. See what he
> mentions anywhere.
> I asked him once at a signing if he thought
> the stammered uncontrolled punch in Billy Budd COULD HAVE been inspired by
> that charge some
> have brought against him in recent decades, that he may have hit his wife. I
> speculated maybe that once, wildly,
> not really angrily a blow at her, but an angry blow that did hit her and he
> knew too late he should have been
> in control, not so overcome with anger. Artistically rendered into Billy
> Budd.
>
> He thought No to that. Because he Is uncertain about the domestic violence
> charge.
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:51 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> Calling you, Ishmailian, but others should chime in.
>>
>> Looking for recommendations of critical essays/papers on Moby Dick, in
>> advance of a reread that, hopefully, will be more informed than the last
>> one. I don't have a specific focus in mind - lit crit (not too jargon-y -
>> I'm a civilian), psychological, philosophical, character studies, language,
>> the theme of work, etc. Basically, anything anyone here has read that they
>> found illuminating. The one criterion: must be available on line.
>>
>> Laura
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
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