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Sweeney, Gerard M.,

Melville's Use of Classical Mythology / Gerard M. Sweeney. - 1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations. - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 . - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Acknowledgements / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Preface / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter One Before Moby-Dick : A “Random Knowledge of the Ancient Fables” / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Two Ahab and the Classical Prometheus / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Three Ahab and the Renaissance Prometheus / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Four Ahab, Oedipus, and Narcissus / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Five Ishmael: The Revolutions of Ixion / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Six Pierre and the Myth of Orestes / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Seven Oracular Silence: Melville, Euripides, and the Meaning of Pierre / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Eight After Pierre : The Ebb Tide of Allusiveness / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Chapter Nine The Last Prometheus: “The Bell-Tower” / Gerard M. Sweeney -- Back Matter -- Index of Persons / Gerard M. Sweeney.


English

ISBN: 9789004656147

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004656147 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Classicism--History--United States--19th century.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Mythology.

LC Class. No.: PS2388.M83

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.3