Tag Archives: Moby-Dick

Frank Stella, Agha Shahid Ali: Moby-Dick into ghazals

Posted on February 21, 2014 by wcd2

Feb 20, 2014 Stella’s “Fedallah” isn’t anything like Melville’s: not the “tiger-yellow” apparition “with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips,” but a fluid, dancing figure, with some dark streaks and shadows, it’s true, but otherwise resplendent, impressive. … Continue reading →

Posted in abstract expressionism, adaptation, Arabic, Classics, Middle East, Modern art, Near Eastern poetry, Poetry, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature | Tagged Agha Shahid Ali, Ain Ghazal Variations, Call Me Ishmael Tonight, Frank Stella, Melville, Moby-Dick, Protractor Series | Leave a comment

Reflections on the Conference

Posted on May 10, 2013 by wcd2

It’s now just shy of three weeks past April 19 and I’m still lingering on the papers presented and conversations had at the first American Literature in the World graduate student conference. “Linger” seems appropriate to my mode of contemplation … Continue reading →

Posted in Educational institutions, Europe, macro politics, museums, Native-American literature, Nineteenth-century literature, World history | Tagged "Conjectures on World Literature", "Spiritual Marshall Plan for Europe", Ahab, Ben Bascom, Franco Moretti, Hadji Bakara, Herman Melville, Ishmael, John Ames Mitchell, Las Meninas, Moby-Dick, Native Americans, New Left Review, Oliver Baker, Red Army Faktion, Robert M. Hutchins, The Last American, Weatherman, Wynema | 1 Comment

Linda Hogan, Herman Melville: People of the Whale

Posted on April 10, 2013 by wcd2

April 10, 2013 The Native Americans have always been there, of course. The very name of the ship brings up their ghostly presence, for “Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Asia, collaboration, Contemporary novel, Ethnicity, Native-American literature, Nineteenth-century literature, oceans, Race, WAr | Tagged A’atsika people, biracialism, Gay Head, Herman Melville, Linda Hogan, Moby-Dick, People of the Whale, Pequod, Tashtego, Vietnam | 2 Comments

Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood: Martians and Others

Posted on February 27, 2013 by wcd2

February 27, 2013 ‘Moby-Dick’ is about the oil industry, and the Ship of American State… The mates are the middle management. The harpooners, who are from races colonized by America one way or another, are supplying the expert tech labor. … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, Canada, Colonization, Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, print medium, Race, Science fiction, Twentieth century literature, Wars | Tagged Ahab, David Foster Wallace, Edith Wharton, Lilith's Brood, Margaret Atwood, Martians, Moby-Dick, Oankali, Octavia Butler, Pequod, Pquod, Raymond Carver, Xenogeneis | Leave a comment

Pynchon on the Simpsons, Hughes on the Bootsie cartoons

Posted on August 29, 2012 by wcd2

August 29, 2012 I’m not absolutely sure it is his voice, but most people seem to think it is: “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife,” Season 15 of The Simpsons, aired on Jan 25, 2004. Marge is mad enough to write a … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, collaboration, Contemporary Art, Ethnicity, Graphic Novels, Interdisciplinarity, Media, Modern art, Modernist poetry, print medium, Race, Remediation, Television, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts, YouTube videos | Tagged " Graphics Classics, "Danse Africaine", "Simple" stories, "The Negro, Afua Richards, All's Fair in Oven War, Bootsie cartoons, Chicago Defender, Daumier, Diatribe of a Mad Housewife, Hogarth, Langston Hughes, Moby-Dick, Ollie Harrington, Stan Shaw, The Simpsons, Thomas Pynchon | 2 Comments

Oceanic Archives, Hong Kong University 2012

Posted on June 5, 2012 by wcd2

June 5, 2012 At least I’ve heard Elizabeth DeLoughrey before. She’s been working on this stuff for years, it’s always a pleaure to get a new installment — in this case, the ocean in danger of being reterritorialized by “seasteading” and … Continue reading →

Posted in Americas, Arabic, Chinese art, Christianity, Cities, collaboration, Creole, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Islam, mexico, Nineteenth-century literature, oceans, peripheral networks, print medium, Spanish, World religions | Tagged Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Herman Melville, James Ficter, Kendall Johnson, Keri Hulme, Manila, mexico city, Moby-Dick, New Zealand, Otto Heim, Phillipines, Puerta del sol, Samuel Enderby | Leave a comment

Two-Way Street

Posted on January 18, 2012 by wcd2

January 18, 2012 Alex Steele never took a class from me. I don’t think I’d ever seen her around the department. But my colleague, Richard Deming, who was going to direct her senior essay, is away on a Fellowship … Continue reading →

Posted in Contemporary Art, Egypt, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Remediation, Translation | Tagged Andrew Seguin, Matt Kish, Melville, Moby-Dick, new media, One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick, pedagogy | 162 Comments

Agha Shahid Ali’s “Call me Ishmael Tonight”

Posted on January 4, 2012 by wcd2

January 4, 2012 This was his last book of poems, published posthumously. Agha Shahid Agha had died of brain cancer on December 8, 2001. How important was Moby-Dick to the Kashmiri poet? Probably less than what Melvilleans would like to … Continue reading →

Posted in Islam, lyric, Near Eastern poetry, Nineteenth-century literature, Remediation, Translation, Twentieth century literature, world literature, World religions | Tagged Agha Shahid Ali, Amitav Ghosh, Arabic, Bible, Call Me Ishmael Tonight, Donald Hall, Edward Said, ghazal, Hayden Carruth, Kashmir, Mark Strand, Melville, Moby-Dick, Persian, Qur'an, W.S. Merwin | 62 Comments

Frank Stella re-mediates Moby-Dick

Posted on December 28, 2011 by wcd2

December 28, 2011 The numbers speak for themselves. Begun in 1985, the Moby-Dick series is still ongoing, with one or more artworks corresponding to each of the 135 chapter titles, over 300 of them at this point. They are mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in abstract expressionism, Chinese art, epic, Japanese art, Near Eastern poetry, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Remediation, twentieth century art, world literature | Tagged "Near East Series", Australia, Frank Stella, Herman Melville, Islamic decorative arts, Japan, Moby-Dick, MOMA, Robert K. Wallace, Roberta Smith, world literature | 168 Comments

Collaboration with Chance

Posted on December 21, 2011 by wcd2

December 21 On our Facebook page, Edgar Garcia posted a link to Jackson Mac Low’s Words nd Ends from Ez. Ezra Pound, of course. The two poets used to be friends, but they were no longer close when Mac Low … Continue reading →

Posted in epic, Experimental poetry, Music, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Remediation, Rock music, Twentieth century literature | Tagged Add new tag, chance, Experimental poetry, Ezra Pound, Herman Melville, Jackson Mac Low, John Bonham, John Cage, Led Zeppelin, Moby-Dick, Music, randomization, Rock music | 9 Comments