Title: The salt-sea mastodon; a reading of Moby-Dick.
Authors: Zoellner, Robert.
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1973
Subjects: Melville, Herman,; Sea stories, American History and criticism.; Whaling in literature; Whales in literature
Contents: Kant and Locke: The protometaphorical substrate -- The creative lamp-mind: The metaphor of illumination -- Primal forms and macro-mirrors: Other constitutive metaphors -- The universal thump: Jehovah's winter world -- Queen Mab: The pyramid and merman as primal forms -- Ahab: the ugly Narcissus -- Ishmael's hypos: The propriety of devil-worship -- Leviathanic revelations: The two whales of Moby-Dick -- Fraternal congenerity: The humanizing of Leviathan -- Green skulls: Ahab's entropism and Ishmael's cyclicism -- Queequeg: The well-governed shark -- Noumenal epiphany: The three days' chase.