Answer by R. A. Hemingway for Why is there so much technical detail of...
Had excellent literature professor who reasoned that the technical sections gave the reader the option of exhaling following the intense pressure of Melville’s narrative. The reader could choose to...
View ArticleAnswer by Robbie Goodwin for Why is there so much technical detail of whaling...
That’s not a “peculiarity”. To most who enjoy the genre that's much, if not most of the point.Melville's reason for including so much technicality was simply to show realism. Consider why Hollywood did...
View ArticleAnswer by Matt Thrower for Why is there so much technical detail of whaling...
There are multiple purposes behind the novel structure of Moby-Dick.In the first instance the author was himself a whaleman, having spent 18 months as an ordinary seaman aboard the whaler Acushnet in...
View ArticleWhy is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick?
One of the peculiarities of Moby-Dick is that it includes large quantities of information about the science of whales and the practice of whaling. Whole chapters are dedicated to describing the...
View Article
