... of gentle suasion, private consciousness-raising, influence. Moby-Dick is a novel shouting not into the void of a world abandoned by God—or not only—but into the empty space where the theocratic authority of the pulpit once was, where words fired by the titanic power of Godliness itself narrated, shaped...

...Allen Guttmann Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 FROM TYPEE TO MOBY-DICK MELVILLE’S ALLUSIVE ART By ALLEN GUTTMANN The complex allusiveness of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce has been the subject of much adverse criticism...

... 69 Blaine, Anthony is both cynic and idealist. But in this novel the possi- bilities are extrapolated into polar characters, Anthony’s friends, the idealist Dick Caramel and the cynic Maury Noble (the names them- selves are ironic tags), who function as surrogates, constantly providing...

...J. J. Boies Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE WHALE WITHOUT EPILOGUE By J. J. BOIES Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London in a three-volume edition entitled The Whale ( 1851...

..., was followed in the Transcript by a list of works which included these erudite items: “a philosophical romance, ‘Redburn’ ; ‘Plute [sic] Jacket ; or the World on [sic] a Man-of-War’ ; ‘Moby Dick’ ; ‘Pierre’ ; ‘Israel Potter’ ; ‘The Prazza [sic] Tales’ . . . .” The Albany Argus, by the same day, had...

... and his work in a way that leaves them recognizable though unreal. For example: The best general discussion of Melville in print insists that “with Mardi, Moby-Dick, and Pierre . . . . he deliberate- ly set himself against the main currents of fiction-writing of his time” ; it refers...

... seems to have made an independent, implicit judg- ment which emerges in those sections of Moby-Dick deriving from the Holy State. Melville as creative artist thus appears as a deeper and more perceptive critic than his professional contemporaries ;5 and con- 1 Merton M. Sealts, Jr...

...- counters them, so to speak, with the arrival of every fresh disaster. In Moby Dick, Captain Ahab sets forth with distinctively Emer- sonian expectations. The white whale, as Ahab conceives of it, is simply a visible object, fraught with metaphysical meaning. Under- taking his voyage around...

... personages,” and he questions whether characters based on “actual historical personages” have any more “authenticating force [as history] than . . . the ebbing sea of shaggy red prairie grass in My Antonia” (p. 14). If so, however, then why has he not included Mob-Dick as an American...

...’ By HERSHELPARKER The Melville industry’s biggest year was 1970, with at least eight books. Complicity exempts me from discussing three of them: “Moby-Dick” as Doubloon and two volumes in the Northwestern- Newberry Edition, Marcli and .White-Jacket. Even without these three, the others...

... Melville’s books there is warm understanding and sympathy shown for the Negro. In Redburn Melville speaks of the freedom Negro sailors enjoy in Liverpool as contrasted with the restrictions on them in their own country.ll In Moby Dick Melville hits a high-water mark in his presentation...

... mastered the com- mon techniques of fiction.“lHis early works were strongly autobio- graphical, and, once he had found his theme, his knowledge of the craft of fiction was no match for his vision of metaphysical immensity. His later works, from Moby-Dick to Budd,Billy provide ample evidence...

...Paul H. Kocher Hugh G. Dick. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University California Publications in English, Vol. 13, 1944. Pp. x + 218. $2.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Tom Perte Cross 355 if on no other grounds, by the analysis...

...- ous shortcomings to Dickens’ mode of characterization, have been found to have serious shortcomings of their own. The stature of Dick- ens, we are now being told, may demand other measures than those formulated by the authors of Middlemarch and The American. How- ever, since the following...

... Ballard, other science fiction writers later thought of as belonging to postmod- ernism, including Samuel R. Delany and Philip K. Dick, did important work in 1966. Delany published a transitional novel, Babel-17, about an alien language that is literally “a virus from outer space,” in the words...

... symbolizes the Fall.” (Here the Fall would be succeeded by Eden.) Granted that Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence Man, Billy Budd, and much of Melville’s other work merit search for complex intention, surely Professor Chase is putting a burden of symbolism on Typee more oppressive than...

... to Mob Dick, “an intense examination of what men might do once ‘meaning’ had become . . . a privately mediated affair between an individual and his conscience” (p. 159). Other theorists were also influential in the development of “a climate in which the possibility of symbolic discourse...

... chapter on Oliver Twist, he says: Love then can transform the world of Oliver Twist and link “to- gether a little society.” But the death of Dick and Agnes and Fagin is never far away, for the absence of love can as surely poison and turn a “little society” into a jungle as its...