Hershel Parker is an editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, and of the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's The Confidence-Man. He is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry). Harrison Hayford is co-editor of the multi-volume The Writings of Herman Melville (Northwestern-Newberry), and editor of the Library of America Melville, in addition to many other works.
For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings, as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg. Evoking Melville's fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846. The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville's interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person's "queenly personality" (Chapter 119). That theme (focused on Melville, Ishmael, and Ahab) is pursued in "A Handful of Critical Challenges," from Walter E. Bezanson's classic centennial study through Harrison Hayford's meditation on "Loomings" and recent essays by Camille Paglia and John Wenke. In "Reviews and Letters by Melville," a letter has been redated and a wealth of new biographical material has been added to the footnotes, notably to Melville's "Hawthorne and His Mosses." "Analogues and Sources" retains classic pieces by J. N. Reynolds and Owen Chase, as well as new findings by Geoffrey Sanborn and Steven Olsen-Smith. "Reviews of Moby-Dick" emphasizes the ongoing religious hostility toward Melville and highlights new discoveries, such as the first-known Scottish review of The Whale. "Posthumous Praise and the Melville Revival: 1893-1927" collects belated, enthusiastic praise up through that of William Faulkner. "Biographical Cross-Light" is Hershel Parker's somber look at what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family. From Foreword through Selected Bibliography, this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition is uniquely valuable as the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for study of Moby-Dick.
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得閑看完瞭《Moby Dick》,中文譯名是《白鯨記》,也譯作《大白鯨》。對這本書産生興趣是藉由某部美劇,劇中一個十幾歲的美國男孩在傢和父母抱怨寫《Moby Dick》的讀書筆記的煩惱,我老公就隨口說瞭句,這本書在美國似乎蠻有名的,很多美國電影和電視劇中都提到過這本書,我鏇...
評分 評分得閑看完瞭《Moby Dick》,中文譯名是《白鯨記》,也譯作《大白鯨》。對這本書産生興趣是藉由某部美劇,劇中一個十幾歲的美國男孩在傢和父母抱怨寫《Moby Dick》的讀書筆記的煩惱,我老公就隨口說瞭句,這本書在美國似乎蠻有名的,很多美國電影和電視劇中都提到過這本書,我鏇...
評分豐富復雜的專門知識和詞匯,嚴肅的神學哲學思考,海風,海浪,堅硬粗壯的黑色臂膀,野蠻而精準的技藝,暴戾的性情和行為,浪漫的冒險精神……麥爾維爾典型的說教小說風格在《白鯨》裏所塑造的最大戲劇性:一個知識豐富、頭腦發達的個人,選擇大範圍伸展自己的肢體,選擇身體上...
評分上帝好像是故意的,在創造英雄時必為其添上邪魔之氣。所以麥剋白被誅滅,赫拉剋勒斯在毒痛中自取死亡,凡是對著世界披荊斬棘的,總在一個不留神中把自己捅殺。Moby-Dick的故事把背景闆換成瞭海洋,但沒有逃齣這個預言的圈。 扮演神魔一體之角色的是船長Ahab. 他是傳說式的人物...
圖書標籤: 美國文學 Melville 小說 文學 英文原版 美國 英文小說 HermanMelville
150周年紀念版的context部分還收入瞭John Putnam的捕鯨船圖解說明以及描繪故事情節的雕版畫,另外還附航海術語詞匯錶。小說用典極多,覺得要真正領會還需要讀好幾遍。。。。
評分白鯨之白|梅爾維爾對於傳統單一知識結構的反叛,對於文學傳統結構的parody和挑戰都可以在這一章看齣。
評分“All these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without. So that all deified nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurement covers nothing but the charnel house within.”
評分我最喜歡的小說之一。Norton的版本好處在於補充資料特別詳盡。
評分我知道這本書很"偉大",也很喜歡其中一些很詩意的片段,但我必須要說,我更中意十九世紀英國文學的原因就是因為他們也在質疑信仰,科學,重構史詩,而且在做這些的同時,依然延續瞭英文文學固有的優雅,高貴和美好。我感覺我很長時間不會想讀這本書,而且它也堅定瞭我要做一個Victorianist的決心
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