Foreword

Athanasios C. Christodoulos

Introduction

Sanford E. Marovitz

I. Among the Nations

Melville's Whaling Years

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards

Melville's Cosmopolitanism: A Map for Living in a (Post.) Colonialist World

Christopher Sten

The American Character, the American Imagination, and the Test of American Travel in Redburn

Marvin Fisher

The Style of Lima: Colonialism, Urban Form, and ``The Town-Ho's Story''

Wyn Kelley

Melville in the Brotherhood: Free-masonry, Fraternalism, and the Artisanal Ideal

James Emmett Ryan

Herman Melville in Thessaloniki: Following the Steps of European Travelers

Ekaterini Georgoudaki

Ideality, Reality, and Inspiration: Melville and Wordsworth in Rome

Maryhelen C. Harmon

The Significance of Melville's Greece Poems in His Late World View

Lyon Evans, Jr.

II. Truth's Ragged Edges

Melville and Diogenes the Cynic

Hennig Cohen

Pythagoras and Nonduality: Melville Among the Pre-Socratics

Rachela Permenter

``The Tragicalness of Human Thought'': An Introduction to Melville's Theory of Knowledge

Athanasios C. Christodoulou

Uneasiness in ``Bartleby'': Melville and Lockean Philosophy

Basem L. Ra'ad

Currents in Common: Christianity in Selected Writings of Melville and Kierkegaard

Hendrika Klijn Neuburger

III. Thematic Patterns

Looking at Melville's First Hero through a Homeric Lens: Tommo and Odysseus

Milton Reigelman

Greeks and Romans in White-Jacket: The Politics of Melville's Classicism

Gail H. Coffer

``Pan and the Pagan Oracles'': Greek Nature and American Identity in the Writings of Herman Melville

Richard Hardack

Sexuality and Self-Colonization in Melville's Typee

John Bryant

``The Leyden Jar'' and ``The Iron Way'' Conjoined: Moby-Dick, the Classical and Modern Schism of Science and Technology

Inger Hunnerup Dalsgaard

The Red Flag of the Pequod / Pequot : Native American Presence in Moby-Dick

Yukiko Oshima

Shakespearean Resonance in Moby-Dick and Pierre

Sanford E. Marovitz

Aging with the Antonines

Stanton Garner

Melville's Medusas

Dennis Berthold

IV. Theoretical Insights

Melville's Memory

Bryan C. Short

Estotericism, Sacrifice, Democracy: Alternative Politics of Tragedy in Nietzsche and Melville

Andreas Kriefall

Melville and the Temple of Literature

Anna Hellen

Pondering Over the Chart of Kokovoko: Herman Melville and the Critique of Cartological Inscription

Zbigniew Bialas

The Language of Prosthesis in Moby-Dick

David Mitchell

Pierre's Silence: Melville's Unmapping of American Space

William Spanos

What Do These Women Want?: Pierre and the New World of Gender

Dilek Direnc

The Euthanasia of Narrative: Multiple Endings in Billy Budd

Attilio Favorini

V. Melville and the Visual Arts

Seeing Moby-Dick Globally

Elizabeth Schultz

Kienbusch, Melville, and the Islands

Wyn Kelley

Circumnavigating the Globe with Frank Stella's Moby-Dick Series

Robert K. Wallace

Energy and Gentleness Double-Hooded: The Figure of Beatrice Cenci in Shelley, Hawthorne, and Melville

Charles Watts

Questioners of the Sphinx: Melville, Vedder, and Orientalism

Dorsey Kleitz

``Aloof'' and ``Aloft'': Cape Colonna in Melville's Poem and Turner's Engravings

Robert K. Wallace

Islamic Architecture in Melville's Writings

Timothy W. Marr

VI. Projection and Reflection

Teaching Herman Melville in China

Jincai Yang

Charles Olson and the Melville Society

Ralph Maud

The Presence and Significance of France and the French Language in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Dominique Marcais

Melville's French Connections

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Melville and Japanese Melvilleans

Arimichi Makino

``Bomba'' and the Italian Hendecasyllable

Gordon Poole

The Motif of the Book in the Works of Herman Melville and Bruno Schulz

Zbigniew Maszewski

``Odes'' with a Grecian Turn: An Intercultural Reading

Jill B. Gidmark

Clarel

Omeros

Contributors

Index