Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power
Subtitle: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick'
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780804746144
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Shakespeare; Melville, Herman,; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literature: Classics; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Moby Dick; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Melville, Herman; History and criticism; Whaling in literature; 1819-1891; Political and social views; Sea stories, American
First sentence: Let us then move closer to Moby-Dick and start to examine the questions I have raised above from the perspective of the concrete encounter with a work of literature.