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Herman Melville's epic story of obsession has all the ingredients of a high quality drama - amazing individuals in solitude and contemporary society, battles between good and bad, a thrilling chase to the loss of life - and yet its allusions, digressions, and large scope can establish challenging to even the most intrepid listener. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and an archive of its dazzling cultural teach. It provides easy-to-follow plot things for each and every of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient key phrase, image, or idea in each for further exploration. Through these forays, Cotkin traces the amazing reach of the novel, sighting the White Whale in mainstream and obscure subcultures equally, from impressionist painting circles to politics terrorist cells. In a lively and participating style, Dive Deeper immerses us into the depths of Melville's effect on the literature, film, and artwork of our modern world. Cotkin's frolicsome wit and critical precision stretch out from Camus to Led Zeppelin, from Emerson to Bob Dylan, and bring alive the terrors and magic of what is arguably America's biggest novel.
