LEADER 03518nam 22005415 450 001 9910746091503321 005 20230909195803.0 010 $a3-031-40357-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-40357-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30736805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30736805 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-40357-6 035 $a(CKB)28172726400041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928172726400041 100 $a20230909d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn Pursuit of Moby-Dick $eOf Whales and Their Gods /$fby Joseph S. Catalano 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (135 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Catalano, Joseph S. In Pursuit of Moby-Dick Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031403569 327 $aChapter 1: No Need to Rush -- Chapter 2: The Book Itself -- Chapter 3: Etymology and Extracts -- Chapter 4 A Tale Twice Told -- Chapter 5 Ishmael and Queequeg -- Chapter 6 Going Whaling and a Hint of Ahab -- Chapter 7 Ahab as Captain and Ahab as Ahab -- Chapter 8 Ahab and Moby Dick -- Chapter 9: The Town-Ho?s Story and Other Gams -- Chapter 10: Whales! Conversation, Art, Dining, Business, and Poetry -- Chapter 11: Ahab?s Leg and Ahab?s life -- Chapter 12: Conclusions, The Unity of Moby-Dick, and A Critical Reflectione. 330 $aThis study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael?s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab?s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales and whaling, which has not received significant critical attention. While each of these perspectives compete for prominence in the narrative, Ahab and Ishmael's stories have often distracted from the vital significance of the whaling narrative as what outlasts Ahab?s obsessive mission. Catalano rights this wrong by coming to a strikingly original and thought-provoking conclusion which becomes the heart of the book's argument: ?the unity of Melville?s book comes, first, from the way the numerous literary, philosophical, and religious reflections are rooted in those magnificent beings, whales and in the men and ships that pursue them, and, second, in the way these reflections illuminate our own lives.? Joseph S. Catalono is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University, USA. Some of his previous publications include Thinking Matter: Consciousness From Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre (2000), Reading Sartre: An Invitation?(2010), and The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (2021). 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aOceanography 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aOcean Sciences 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aOceanography. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aOcean Sciences. 676 $a813.3 700 $aCatalano$b Joseph S$0960966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746091503321 996 $aIn Pursuit of Moby-Dick$93563141 997 $aUNINA