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Bezig met laden... Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Editiondoor Herman Melville
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Sometimes a whale is just a whale, and sometimes a whale is an angry, wrathful, vengeance-seeking fish. But vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. And sometimes the whale is a quasi-demiurge made flesh. This book entirely consumed me. I will never be the same. ( ) The characters are deliberately odd. Ishmael himself is a loner, one who wishes to take ship for the adventure of it, but also to avoid society. He believes that “in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God” and would rather die at sea than be “dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety“. Queequeg is a cannibal who worships a small head in a mishmash of religions considered pagan by Ishmael. As they embark there are three captains aboard: Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad as well as Captain Ahab, who even at the point of departure is still nowhere to be seen. Despite the omens – Elijah’s warnings, and the whispered snatches of conversation about the elusive Ahab – Ishmael considers there to be nothing strange about this. To read more of what is more of a summary than a review, see http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/making-sense-of-moby-dick-by-herman... Perhaps the most amazing novel in American literature. The thousands of pages of literary scholarship are enough to prove the book's seemingly endless amount of unturned rocks. For a casual reader a daunting task, for an eager reader a feast of gluttonous proportions. The relationships on board the Pequod can be interpreted any number of ways, from psychological to religious. The peaceful savage Queequeg is the blueprint for a literary spirit guide. Although the novel does drag in many places, there does seem to be a bit of method to Melville's sluggish style, namely in the satirical cetology chapters. Melville's novel may have been considered a failure by his contemporaries, however he created one of the most rich and enthralling works of all time. 'Moby-Dick' explores the deepest recesses of the human soul and creates a fantastically maniacal character in Ahab. Warning: do not pick up this book expecting to follow an exceptionally vigorous plot speeding along allegorical tracks in a few short sittings. Expect to devote many hours exploring complex characters and unraveling intense social, political, religious and psychological commentary. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This innovative, scholarly edition of Moby Dick offers unprecedented access to the revisions Herman Melville made to the original 1851 American version of the novel and illuminates all changes which scholars have made to create the classic that readers know today. The fluid text feature illuminates the personal, social, and cultural context of Melville's work, right on the page, while also offering fresh contextual notes, illustrations, and other apparatus to make this the most reader-friendly - and therefore most teachable - edition available today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.3Literature English (North America) American fiction Middle 19th Century 1830-1861LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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