Sounding the whale
Moby-Dick as epic novel
by Christopher Sten
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Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten's comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by the Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of Moby-Dick evolved as a book within a book.
Sten argues that Melville not only was familiar with the traditional forms of narrative but that he refined them and appropriated them to his own original purposes. For Moby-Dick, he fused the heroic qualities of the ancient Homeric epic with the spiritual qualities of the early modern form found in Dante and Milton, then cast the whole enterprise in an unprecedented poetic prose form.
Thus he formulated the first prose epic of its kind, and the only religious epic on the subject of whaling anyone is likely to write.
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Sounding the whale: Moby-Dick as epic novel
1996, Kent State University Press
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0873385608 9780873385602
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88) and index.
Previously published as ch. 6 of The weaver God, he weaves. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1996. With a new introd.
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