Moby-Dick and the Hunt for Modern Meaning

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Melvilles massive and unwieldy tale of mad Captain Ahabs hunt for the White Whale has been called the seminal American epic. It contains the cosmos, says Harold Bloom, adding, somewhat more controversially, that he would not change one sentence... We will read the work with attention to its distinctive literary form and the questions it raises about the prospects for the search for meaning in modernity and for American democracy, informed by a few critical commentaries, both classic and more recent.