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The shape of the whale: flukes and other tales.("Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
Leviathan; 10/1/2005; Djelal, Juana Celia; 2834 words
; ... natural history. Melville's certainty ... borders and Melville's celebration ... determine not only Melville's true method ... respective sections. Melville descries flukes ... gather that Melville's pursuit of ... utterance, Melville provides permutations ... flags that Melville displays ...
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The character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.' (Herman Melville)
World and I; 2/1/1998; Tuttleton, James W.; 4924 words
; ... it, O God.(26) Such was Melville's belief in the inward and ... as merely a dumb beast. Melville's novel is predicated on ... existence. AHAB'S RELIGION Melville knew that voyaging the metaphysical ... philosophical man given, like Melville, to symbolic hermeneutics ... named. The deranged prophet ...
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Introduction: Melville and disability.(Editorial)
Leviathan; 3/1/2006; Otter, Samuel; 4605 words
; ... achievement. Both sketches from Melville's Writing Desk are filled ... the second Fragment from Melville's Writing Desk suggests ... intricate sketches inaugurate Melville's career-long pursuit ... series of figures across Melville's prose and poetry whose ... and the crazy prophets Elijah and ...
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A refuge from sea life, war Since Melville's time, seafarers have had a haven in New Bedford
The Boston Globe; 1/27/1991; David Arnold, Globe Staff; 1281 words
; ... Dick." In the New Bedford of Herman Melville's day, Persia was a place in the Bible ... make a Sunday visit to the spot," Melville wrote in "Moby Dick," published in ... Benchley fallen from an upper yardarm, of Elijah Smith swallowed by a storm. Melville visited the chapel often with ...
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"A spiritual sphere wholly obscure": "lunacy," the Orlando Furioso, and "the incident at the mess" in Billy Budd. (Notes).(Critical Essay)
ANQ; 1/1/2003; Neff, D.S.; 2736 words
; ... in Billy Budd, Melville's often perplexing ... specific record of Melville's ever having read ... short time after Melville joined, in 1847 ... period in his life, Melville began purchasing ... lives there with Elijah and Enoch. As the ... 370-75). (2) How Melville may have employed ... viewed ...
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"In the beginning was the word ..." whale "... the letter H ..." (1).('Moby Dick')
Melville Society Extracts; 2/1/2002; Boudreau, Gordon V.; 4351 words
; ... Moby-Dick, Melville's great sea ... edition of Melville's work was ... is it that Melville opens his book ... we suppose a Melville lurking behind ... Sub-Sub, suggest Melville's appropriations ... as Geoffrey Stone remarked, Melville's third novel ... prophesied both by Elijah and ...
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Composing Moby-Dick: what might have happened.
Leviathan; 3/1/2003; Doctorow, E.L.; 4334 words
; ... maintaining narrative tension. Melville's entry point, I remind ... I wouldn't wonder if Melville at this point, the Pequod ... and I don't know what Melville himself may have said ... to be trusted. Perhaps Melville had everything comfortably ... entirely land-based writing, Melville stopped to ...
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Ishmael's recovery: injury, illness, and convalescence in Moby-Dick.(Character overview)
Leviathan; 3/1/2006; Ryan, James Emmett; 8652 words
; ... they uniformly accepted. Melville's puzzlings over the matter ... critical stage during Melville's adult life--parallels Melville's fictional concern about ... described so memorably in Melville's opening chapter to Moby-Di ... necessary to register Melville's conviction that not ... felt all the ...
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Breathing new life into city's grand old lady; It's been a long wait and has cost pounds 35 million, but the restoration of Birmingham Town Hall is spectacular.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England); 8/5/2006; 2474 words
; ... Leamington-based specialist architects Rodney Melville and Partners, it has been like refurbishing ... Construction, Urban Design, Invigour, Rodney Melville and Partners and specialists ranging from ... most challenging, not least because of the stone's poor state, unusual composition and the ... the original ...
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The Sixth Annual Monitor Mega Movie Guide.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
The Christian Science Monitor; 12/22/2000; 39210 words
; ... themes cluster around the ultimately mysterious nature of human personality. Loosely based on Herman Melville's great novella Billy Budd: Foretopman, this ravishingly filmed masterpiece is as emotionally stirring ... Toback. With Brooke Shields, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Tyson, Stacy Edwards, Ben Stiller, Gaby Hoffman, ...
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