NP: Moby Dick

[Keith Davis]

A group read of MD would be great.

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> On 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
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