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Inscrutable Malice : Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of "Moby-Dick" / Jonathan A. Cook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780875804644
  • 9781501757167
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PS2384.M62 .C665 2012eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- CHAPTER ONE Joban Theodicy and Apocalyptic Eschatology -- CHAPTER TWO Pilgrimage and Prophecy -- CHAPTER THREE Chaos Monster and Unholy Warrior -- CHAPTER FOUR Cetology, Cosmology, Epistemology -- CHAPTER FIVE Comic and Tragic Variations -- CHAPTER SIX Hubris and Heroism, Mortality and Immortality -- CHAPTER SEVEN Combat and Catastrophe -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Melville and Moby-Dick Studies -- Index
Summary: In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments.With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel.  Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Bibliographical Note -- CHAPTER ONE Joban Theodicy and Apocalyptic Eschatology -- CHAPTER TWO Pilgrimage and Prophecy -- CHAPTER THREE Chaos Monster and Unholy Warrior -- CHAPTER FOUR Cetology, Cosmology, Epistemology -- CHAPTER FIVE Comic and Tragic Variations -- CHAPTER SIX Hubris and Heroism, Mortality and Immortality -- CHAPTER SEVEN Combat and Catastrophe -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Melville and Moby-Dick Studies -- Index

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In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments.With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel.  Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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