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Description for Dive Deeper
Paperback. An easy-to-navigate guide to Herman Melville's epic American novel, Dive Deeper consists of 135 brief chapters, along with Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue, each keyed to a phrase, issue, image, sensibility or notion in corresponding chapters of the original. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: APF; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling cultural train. It supplies easy-to-follow plot points for each of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient phrase, image, or idea in each for further exploration. Through these forays, Cotkin traces the astonishing reach ... Read more
Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling cultural train. It supplies easy-to-follow plot points for each of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient phrase, image, or idea in each for further exploration. Through these forays, Cotkin traces the astonishing reach ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199855759
SKU
V9780199855759
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About George Cotkin
George Cotkin is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Reviews for Dive Deeper
[An] entertaining companion to Moby-Dick.
Publishers Weekly, selected as a Pick of the Week
Dive Deeper is a pleasure to read and the truest portrait of Moby-Dick in American life and letters yet produced.
David Dowling, author of Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or What Melville Means Today
seriously entertaining ... this new companion ... Read more
Publishers Weekly, selected as a Pick of the Week
Dive Deeper is a pleasure to read and the truest portrait of Moby-Dick in American life and letters yet produced.
David Dowling, author of Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or What Melville Means Today
seriously entertaining ... this new companion ... Read more