An edition of Sounding the whale (1996)

Sounding the whale

Moby-Dick as epic novel

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An edition of Sounding the whale (1996)

Sounding the whale

Moby-Dick as epic novel

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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English
Pages
91

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Sounding the whale: Moby-Dick as epic novel
1996, Kent State University Press
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Edition Notes

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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Kent, Ohio

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2384.M62 S69 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 91 p. ;
Number of pages
91

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL979938M
Internet Archive
soundingwhalemob0000sten
ISBN 10
0873385608
LCCN
96017392
OCLC/WorldCat
34576830
Library Thing
6365061
Goodreads
336539

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