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"Culpability and transgression in the monomania of Ahab".
; Accounts of Ahab's hunt for the white whale in Herman Melville...disorder. In fact, Ishmael probes deep into Ahab's mind to tease out the details of the monomaniacal...immense value to an analysis of Captain Ahab's monomania, because an increase in Ahab...
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Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time?
; ...Things Considered 03-10-2008 Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Host: ROBERT SIEGEL...Norris. It is a classic image - Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on a deck...Mr. GREGORY PECK (Actor): (As Captain Ahab) Mr. Starbuck, are you opposing me? If...
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star Gazer: A wider/deeper view of Melville's tragic hero and his times
; In the opening pages of her novel, Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund quotes Melville...where Captain Peleg says that "the old man" Ahab has a young, "sweet, resigned wife" and child; so he concludes, "Ahab has his humanities! (xvii-xviii). In her...
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Ahab's wife tells her tale in Henson puppet theater fete
; ...author Herman Melville mentions Captain Ahab's wife all of three times in the 700-odd pages. While the embittered Ahab slices through waves in his hunt for the...area artists have collaborated to infuse Ahab's wife with a resonant voice, offering...
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Patrick Stewart -- Call Him Ahab; Boldly Going Where Capt. Picard Never Dared
; ...Patrick Stewart said, "that playing Capt. Ahab was the fulfillment of a lifetime ambition...it wasn't." The man who portrays Capt. Ahab of the Pequod in USA Network's adaptation...Picard of the Starship Enterprise when Ahab beckoned. "We were in the makeup trailer...
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Ahab and Jezebel, one of the Bible's most 'colorful' couples
; ...Judas and Caiaphas. This week: evil King Ahab and his provocative wife, Jezebel. To mention the name Ahab today is to conjure up at best the image...ethics of some of the previous kings. King Ahab ruled the kingdom of Israel from around 874-8...
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Ahab's wife leaves the kitchen; They have the vote, they have the jobs, now women have their own 'Moby Dick'.(Features)(Ideas)(Books)
; AHAB'S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund William Morrow 668 pp., $28...characters in America's canonized literature. Her new novel, Ahab's Wife, grew from a stray reference in Herman Melville's...imbalance. Una begins her sweeping voyage by confessing, Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last. Here ...
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Author's anger sinks adventurous `Ahab's Wife'
; Ahab's Wife. By Sena Jeter Naslund. Morrow. 688 pages. $28. There...of these have been more about money than art. At first, "Ahab's Wife," Sena Jeter Naslund's companion to "Moby Dick," seems...publicity declaring that the book's first sentence -- "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" -- ...
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The character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.' (Herman Melville)
; ...aside the great white whale itself, Captain Ahab, skipper of the doomed ship, the Pequod...written by an American novelist. With Captain Ahab, we have Melville's idea of the American...a remarkable Promethean figure, Captain Ahab. For those who have not read the book...
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Ahab and the glamour of evil: a Burkean reading of ritual in 'Moby Dick.'
; ...chapters. Poet W. H. Auden writes that Ahab enacts every ritual ... of the Religious...the Quarterdeck directly to Christianity: Ahab acts as an Antichrist figure who performs a Black Mass (40-41). Ahab performs these rituals to induce action...
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