TY - BOOK AU - Sweeney,Gerard M. TI - Melville's Use of Classical Mythology T2 - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 SN - 9789004656147 AV - PS2388.M83 U1 - 813/.3 23 PY - 1975/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Classicism KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Mythology, Classical, in literature KW - Mythology N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004656147 ER -