Composing Moby-Dick: what might have happened.

From: Leviathan | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THE ASTMAN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

MOBY-DICK 2001: AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

I for one, appreciate my courage in speaking here this evening. For what can I presume to say about Melville's Moby-Dick to a congregation of literary harpooners who have heaved their darts time and time again into the textual hide of this Leviathan? I suspect that while I seem to be standing in an academic setting facing a company of scholars, I am actually in the foc'sle of the Pequod with the oil lamp swinging from the headbeam and throwing lights and shadows over the ...

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