Picture this: A timid, would-be mariner arrives in a crowded New England whaling port — and winds up sharing a bed with a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, oddly coiffed reputed cannibal, the proud ...
The first line in Herman Melville's Moby Dick has become distinctly and instantly recognizable since its publication in 1851. It's a line composed of only three words, yet those three words have had ...
(The Conversation) — As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate ...
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LOVE AND DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL (603 pp.)—Leslie A. Fiedler—Criterion ($8.50). Leslie A. Fiedler, literary critic and professor of English at Montana State University, describes the friendship of ...
A piano, wooden boxes, piles of skulls and a ship’s wheel decorate the stage of Space 111 of Doosan Art Center to become Pequod, a whaling ship seeking Moby Dick, with a mast and the moon as the ...
As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot ...
It is my good fortune that no teacher ever assigned “Moby-Dick” while I was in school. I'm only now reading Herman Melville's masterpiece and regularly feeling gratitude to my teachers for not ...
As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the past can help us confront our current crises – especially climate change. And there’s a lot ...
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