Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.; Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.; Whaling in literature.; Whales in literature.; American literature -- History and criticism.
Description: A collection of eight critical essays on Melville's novel "Moby Dick" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 151-152.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Call me Ishmael / Charles Olson; title: In nomine diaboli / Henry A. Murray; title: Herman Melville / David Simpson; title: The career of Ishmael's self-transcendence / Rowland A. Sherrill; title: Moby-Dick, an American lyrical novel / Bert Bender; title: Speech in Moby-Dick / Louise K. Barnett; title: The metaphysics of beauty and terror in Moby-Dick / Frank G. Novak, Jr.; title: Ahab's name / P. Adams Sitney.