NP: Moby Dick

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, I do hope so....I have read Buell's essay alluded to in that
Master's thesis paper I sent around which Perry reminded of...

and, without having reread Moby Dick, and I have read about it
as well, I did agree with Buell that Pynchon knew it, of course.
 but did not
even sorta 'rewrite' it as the Master Thesis Baiter suggested....



On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:18 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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