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Whaler's Dictionary
Dan Beachy-Quick
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Description for Whaler's Dictionary
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
Taking both form and inspiration from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetalogical Dictionary," this highly original work muses on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, notions of spiritual quest, and other elements of Melville's masterpiece. From "Accuracy" to "Wound," "Adam" to "Void," "Babel" to "Silence," these cross-referential, highly associative entries comprise an utterly singular work of art. A Whaler's Dictionary is the mesmerizing product of a total immersion into one of the greatest novels in the English language.
Taking both form and inspiration from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetalogical Dictionary," this highly original work muses on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, notions of spiritual quest, and other elements of Melville's masterpiece. From "Accuracy" to "Wound," "Adam" to "Void," "Babel" to "Silence," these cross-referential, highly associative entries comprise an utterly singular work of art. A Whaler's Dictionary is the mesmerizing product of a total immersion into one of the greatest novels in the English language.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571313096
SKU
V9781571313096
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99-15
Reviews for Whaler's Dictionary
"Essayistic, inventive, and frequently brilliant."
Poetry Foundation "This is a rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read, making room for new observations, more creative relationships all around: writer/reader, person/book, literature/life."
Los Angeles Times "Wounded by a book, wounded by the force of idolatrous speech in Moby-Dick, Dan Beachy-Quick has mounted a kind of ... Read more
Poetry Foundation "This is a rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read, making room for new observations, more creative relationships all around: writer/reader, person/book, literature/life."
Los Angeles Times "Wounded by a book, wounded by the force of idolatrous speech in Moby-Dick, Dan Beachy-Quick has mounted a kind of ... Read more