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050 00 $aPS2384.M62$bD69 2010
082 00 $a813/.3$222
100 1 $aDowling, David Oakey,$d1967-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010016688
245 10 $aChasing the white whale :$bthe Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today /$cby David Dowling.
260 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $aviii, 242 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$tThat Everlasting Itch -- $tThe Allure of Whaling and Marathon Reading -- $g2.$tQueequeg's Ink -- $tThe Dilemma of Reading the Inscrutable -- $g3.$tCaptain and Mates -- $tHonored Readers -- $g4.$tHarpooners and Sailors -- $tThe Unsung Readers -- $g5.$tSurvival -- $tEnduring the Sledge-Hammering Seas of the Soul -- $g6.$tThe Breach -- $tExulting in the Whale.
500 $a"The nonstop reading of Melville's titanic epic 'Moby Dick' in the setting of New Bedford's Whaling Museum has inspire[d] this fresh look at the novel in light of its most devoted followers. With some trepidation, David Dowling joined the ranks of the Melvillians to participate in the event for the full twenty-five hours. He survived to [tell] the tale of the voyage to the marathon reading that organizes his critical analysis of the novel from its romantic departure to its sledgehammering seas, detailing the culture of the top brass to the common crew and scrutinizing the inscrutable in and through Melville's great novel"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a""David Dowling's book, a thoughtful blend of reportage, cultural observation, and literary reflection, engages at length with Moby-Dick and some of its most dedicated fans: the eager hordes who descend on New Bedford, Massachusetts, each January for the Moby-Dick Marathon...Dowling opens up the connections between Melville's quest and those of his readers as he ranges widely through the text. This book makes Moby-Dick accessible to all by demonstrating its continuing and increasing relevance in twenty-first-century global culture."W︣yn Kelley, associate editor, Leviathan: A journal of Melville Studies, and author, An Introduction to Herman Melville, Melville City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York, and A Companion to Herman Melville" ""David Dowling's Chasing the White Whale is a book that dives down into Moby-Dick's inscrutable depths and there conducts its rigorous thinking. What enables Dowling's academic scrutiny to achieve such richness is his willingness to jump full-bodied into the midst of the devoted general readers who travel to New Bedford to attend, for 25 hours, to the novel they love. Like Ishmael, Dowling imbues his critical thinking with human warmth, his reasoning with humor, giving us a book not only composed within Melville's own true method of 'careful disorder,' but also one that manages to show how this nineteenth-century masterpiece has its hawsers fastened firmly to our own."-Dan Beachy-Quick, author, A Whaler's Dictionary" ""There have been a lot of crazy books about Melville and Moby-Dickb︣ut this isn't one of them. Dowling's overarching analogy, between Ishmael's and Melville's obsessions and the annual marathon group-reading of Moby-Dick in New Bedford, makes perfect sense and generates illuminating analyses of the novel and its cultural contexts. It also lets him open his book up into a passionate exploration of how great literature can still play a vital role in people's lives today"-Damion Searls, editor, Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861 and Melville's; or The Whale"--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891.$tMoby Dick.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282472
650 0 $aSea stories, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111144
650 0 $aWhaling in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009066
650 0 $aWhales in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009059
852 00 $bglx$hPS2384.M62$iD69 2010