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Blue Smoke

Analecta Hermeneutica
Volume 16 (2024)

Hermeneutics and Melville

Guest Editor: Christopher Hanlon

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction
Christopher Hanlon

Melville’s literary corpus has not only presented an object of interpretation in the approximately 130 years since the author’s death; Melville’s texts themselves often make the very process of interpretation a major driver of narrative. . .

Articles

The Life Is the Work:
Melville’s Revival and the Birth of American Literary Studies
Ashley C. Barnes

Hermeneutic Virtue and Moral Masquerading:
Gadamer and the Question of Solidarity in
Melville’s The Confidence-Man
Alexander Crist

The World in a Word:
A Hermeneutic of Wonder in Melville’s Whale
Lisa Fellars Watrous 

‘Since hearsed was Pan’:
Marvel Melville Underground
Thomas Dutoit

Pip’s Unmediated Vision:
Toward a Gadamerian Hermeneutics in Moby-Dick
Andreea Norica Bălan

 

Roundtables

Extracts

Reviews & Notices

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