Reading and Meeting Schedule
Chapters 1-42
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Chapters 43-87
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Chapters 88-Epilogue
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Videos:
NYU Lectures with Cyrus Patell:
Intro; Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 4; Lecture 5
Classic Novels- Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature (The Great Courses):
Lecture 10: Melville—Moby Dick
Podcasts:
"Episode 229: Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville" from Backlisted
"Episode 20: Melville Live at the Moby-Dick Marathon" from Unburied Books
"On Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick': A Discussion with John Durham Peters" from Writ Large
"Episode 431: Why Read Moby-Dick and Other Classics" from The Arts of Language Podcast
"Moby-Dick: An American Myth" from Digital Jung
"'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville" from Novel Conversations
Online Articles:
"The Endless Depths of Moby-Dick Symbolism" by Joe Fassler for The Atlantic
"Guide to the classics: Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville" by Sascha Morrell for The Conversation
"Herman Melville’s Great American Novel, ‘Moby-Dick,’ Only Got Mixed Reviews When It First Hit Bookstores" by Eli Wizevich for Smithsonian
"Hope, love and fear: why Moby-Dick is the perfect novel for our times" by Paul Daley for The Guardian
"How Scholars Rescued the Author of Moby-Dick from the Waters of Oblivion" by Paul Hond for Columbia Magazine
"The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of Moby Dick" by Gabrielle Bellot for LitHub
"Reading Moby-Dick with Marilynne Robinson" by Drew Bratcher for The Gospel Coalition
"What 'Moby-Dick' Means to Me" by Philip Hoare for The New Yorker
"Why Does Moby-Dick (Sometimes) Have a Hyphen?" by Erin Blakemore for Smithsonian
Critical Articles:
"The Dynamic in Moby-Dick: Ishmael's Voices" - Walter E Bezanson
"Fanaticism, Polytheism, and Melville's 'Evil Art'" from All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
"Herman Melville" from Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom
"Herman Melville: Moby Dick" from How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
"Irreconcilable Differences: Voice, Trauma, and Melville's Moby-Dick" - Tara Robbins Fee
"Kraken: Moby-Dick in Popular Culture" - Timothy Marr
"Lonely Individualism in Moby-Dick" - Yoshiaki Furui
"Moby-Dick or The Whale" from A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
"Pip's Oceanic Voice: Speech and the Sea in Moby-Dick" - Jimmy Packham
"Rewriting Moby-Dick: Politics, Textual Identity, and the Revision Narrative" - John Bryant
"Whose Book is Moby-Dick?" - Merton M. Sealts, Jr.
