Reading Moby-Dick and Other EssaysA collection of essays in the area of religion and the arts, most of which are linked together by the dominant theme of the death of God. The title essay is an extended introduction to Melville's masterpiece, in the form of a reader's guide, with chapter-by-chapter comments and essays along the way. |
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Ahab Ahab's beauty become beginning believe body book of Jonah Bulkington called cancer cardinal ceiling century of death Chapel chapter Christ Christian Confessions consent to kill consenting dead death of God devil divine Doctor dream dying earth eschatology eternal evil face faith father fear Fedallah feel final fire Florence Florentine freedom Gilbert God's gods grace harpooners Hawthorne heart heaven human idea immortality Ishmael Jesus Jonah journey kill Kirillov kiss language Last Judgment Lear Leo Steinberg lives look Mapple Mapple's meaning Medici meditation Melville Melville's metaphor Michelangelo Moby-Dick moral mother murder myth nature neo-platonism never Patient Pequod perhaps Pietà Queequeg Reader rejection religious Renaissance Rondanini Pietà seems ship Sistine Sistine ceiling sleep Socrates Sonnet soul speak Sperm spirit Starbuck Stubb suicide thee theological things thou Tommaso tradition truth turn Vittoria W. H. Auden white whale