Find one or two academic papers that describe the narrative flow of Moby Dick

[nicholasjhorton]

Do you have any updates on this front? There's an extensive literature on Moby Dick. Are there one or two papers that might be amenable to you to replicate using your data package?

[arogers24]

I've spent a good deal looking into this and found nothing incredibly enlightening. There is an interesting quote that highlights what I'm looking to show:

"The novel is an encyclopedia of forms, a narrative chowder that combines dictionary, whaling manual, comedy, tragedy, epic, prophecy, sermon, soliloquy, drama, bawdy humor, and tales within tales. … Melville looks at the whale, with relish, from an exuberant assortment of literary angles, encompassing them all into one mighty compendium and in so doing breaking the boundaries of what it means to be a book."

—Elizabeth Renker, Introduction to Moby-Dick

I haven't found an analysis looking to prove this, but I think it should be possible with topic modeling.

[nicholasjhorton]

@arogers24 can you track down a copy of Bezanson's classic 1953 paper?

(1953). "Moby-Dick: Work of Art". Moby-Dick Centennial Essays: 30–58., reprinted in Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, ed., Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Edition, 1sr ed., 1967; 2nd ed.; Hershel Parker, ed., Moby-Dick (Norton Critical Edition, 2019).

Moby-Dick : An authoritative text / Reviews and letters by Melville; Analogues and sources; Criticism. Edited by Harrison Hayford [and] Hershel Parker. Pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam. Book Jacket Language: English Authors: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Publication Information: New York : W. W. Norton, [1967] Publication Date: 1967 Physical Description: xviii, 728 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Series: Norton critical edition Publication Type: Book Document Type: Bibliographies Notes: Bibliography: p. 728. Other Authors: Hayford, Harrison

Parker, Hershel ISBN: 039309670X LCCN: 66011309 OCLC: 00953128 Accession Number: acf.oai.edge.fivecolleges.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001006.95e621b1.5e90.572c.8aa9.4a413c3c391d Database: Five Colleges Catalog Location Information Location Call No. Status Amherst College Frost Library PS2384 .M6 1967 Available Amherst College Frost Library PS2384 .M6 1967 Available Amherst College Frost Library

Perhaps while I meet with other students (if it's not raining).

[nicholasjhorton]

This issue will be closed when @arogers24 has added these into the references for what I suspect will be a very short report that accompanies the Shiny app (see #12)

[nicholasjhorton]

The Bezanson addition was really helpful.

I'm closing this issue.