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Cover Title Publication Data Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Text and Body: The Cultural Origin of Allegory 2. The Romantic Crisis of Allegory Re-allegorizing the Bible Two Test Cases: The City and Nature 3. From Cenotaph to Sea: The Turn (Moby-Dick, Chapters 1—23) Entering the Book Ishmael as Allegorist Ishmael's Language: The Secular-Sacred Disjunction The Scene of Petrification 4. The Dream of a Chart (Moby-Dick, Chapters 24—48) Reading Ahab Unweaving the Mat 5. The Carnivalized World: Discovery of the Body (Moby-Dick, Chapters 49—75) The Carnival Attitude The Whale and Allegorical Representation The Inverted World The Threshold Dialogue 6. Unveilings (Moby-Dick, Chapters 76—105) Initiation Approaches to Isis 7. Unfulfillments and Whelmings (Moby-Dick, Chapter 106—Epilogue) Ahab and Augury The Romantic Morality Play Bibliography Index

Who reads Exiled waters : Moby-Dick and the crisis of allegory?

Author

Bainard Cowan

Publisher

Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr; Louisiana State Univ Pr

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807110027

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Technology