The Doubloon: Trilling's Melville Problem
Writing about his Partisan Review years, William Barrett retails an anecdote about the reaction of Philip Rahv and Delmore Schwartz to the news that Alfred Kazin was about to turn his critical attention to the works of Herman Melville. "I wonder what Alfred will make of Moby Dick" asked Ra...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/cras-017-01-02 2023-12-31T10:23:58+01:00 The Doubloon: Trilling's Melville Problem Monteiro, George 1986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-017-01-02 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/CRAS-017-01-02 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Review of American Studies volume 17, issue 1, page 27-34 ISSN 0007-7720 1710-114X Literature and Literary Theory History Cultural Studies journal-article 1986 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/cras-017-01-02 2023-12-01T08:18:23Z Writing about his Partisan Review years, William Barrett retails an anecdote about the reaction of Philip Rahv and Delmore Schwartz to the news that Alfred Kazin was about to turn his critical attention to the works of Herman Melville. "I wonder what Alfred will make of Moby Dick" asked Rahv, "when he turns all that Jewish schmaltz loose on Captain Ahab and the White Whale." The question brought laughter and inspired Schwartz to strike a harpooner's pose in hot pursuit of the great white whale, shouting "Whale ahoy!" Then, heaving his imaginary harpoon, Schwartz yelled out gleefully, "Gefilte fish!"1 Article in Journal/Newspaper White whale University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Review of American Studies 17 1 27 34 |
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Writing about his Partisan Review years, William Barrett retails an anecdote about the reaction of Philip Rahv and Delmore Schwartz to the news that Alfred Kazin was about to turn his critical attention to the works of Herman Melville. "I wonder what Alfred will make of Moby Dick" asked Rahv, "when he turns all that Jewish schmaltz loose on Captain Ahab and the White Whale." The question brought laughter and inspired Schwartz to strike a harpooner's pose in hot pursuit of the great white whale, shouting "Whale ahoy!" Then, heaving his imaginary harpoon, Schwartz yelled out gleefully, "Gefilte fish!"1 |
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