For your mental mastication ...
http://mobydickasphilosophy.typepad.com/my-blog/
Particularly the Intro and Epilogue.
How are Plato, Melville and Nietzsche connected? And why does it matter?
Over-analysis much?
Interesting quotes.
Solitary ... I liked the quotes too ... like axioms behind the deep literary analysis
dtq123 ... I don't pretend to understand it myself ... just to show an example of something that has been heavily analyzed, that isn't the Bible ... which I treat as literature. On the other hand, some of the text in the analysis implies that some people treated Moby Dick as a kind of scripture ... hmmm. And of course like the Bible, there are some "facts" behind it, the wreck of the whale ship Essex ... which has been made into a recent movie. But that probably can't be turned into a self revelation of the intellectual development of Herman Melville. Herman Melville did interview one of the survivors of the Essex ... who told him a horrible story ... that scared the hell out of me when I was 14 ... and that gave him the idea for Moby Dick ... though it is no more history or biography, than the Bible is.
Quote from: Baruch on July 07, 2015, 12:37:17 AM
dtq123 ... I don't pretend to understand it myself ... just to show an example of something that has been heavily analyzed, that isn't the Bible ... which I treat as literature.
Have you seen Thug Notes? Perhaps you'll enjoy it. :wink:
Thug Notes? No, I haven't seen them. But they seem to be a good idea ;-)