它与福克纳的《熊》、海明威的《老人与海》并称为美国文学史上的三大动物史诗。因为书中描写了海上纷繁的捕鲸生活，也被誉为“捕鲸业的百科全书”。 《剑桥文学史》称之为世界文学史上最伟大的海洋传奇小说之一。 [展开][收起] ...

Richard Powers’s recent novels have traded complexity for preachiness, but his latest is an effective twist on AI panic.

Within two years, the family was bankrupt and Herman's father died suddenly. Melville and his siblings left school to work in the family fur and cap business, with Melville working several other ...

Subversive Nostalgia, or Captain America at the Museum. The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 49, Issue. 1, p. 116. Hamdan, Mohammed 2020. ‘Till we stand on the summit of yonder mountain’: literary ...

Within two years, the family was bankrupt and Herman's father died suddenly. Melville and his siblings left school to work in the family fur and cap business, with Melville working several other ...

Bouchard, Larry D. 2022. “Thou Art Skylarking with Me”: Travesty, Prophecy, and Ethical Mutuality in Moby-Dick. Religions, Vol. 13, Issue. 12, p. 1141.

Among the leading figures to visit Eretz Yisrael, which included Mark Twain, was Herman Melville ... theological issues dominated much of his work. Melville’s complicated philosophical theology ...

On Saturday, October 19, the Friends of the Library is sponsoring a theatrical performance, which is free and open to the ...

Barry Moser, an illustrator and professor of art at Smith College, has works featured in a New York City exhibition honoring ...

One of the problems I have is with the distortion of writers’ great works as tribute to current trends. For instance, Herman Melville’s. Everything Melville put down on paper had a reason ...

In Gary Meitrott’s “Moby Dick,” there’s one element missing from Herman Melville’s classic novel. In rehearsal Monday night, a roomful of men sang — stomped really — a sea shanty in unison. If you’ve ...