Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick Paperback – March 6, 2010
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| Management number | 219441490 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $32.39 | Model Number | 219441490 | ||
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A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conferenceThe twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel’s problematic structure, its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and post-Freudian psychology, and its rhetoric. They also present fresh information on new areas of interest: Melville’s creative process, law and jurisprudence, Freemasonry and labor, race, Latin Americanism, and the Native American.Scholars, students, and readers of Moby-Dick will find this collection of essays fresh and insightful. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1606350684 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1606350683 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Kent State University Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.45 pounds |
| Print length | 392 pages |
| Publication date | March 6, 2010 |
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