An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.

An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.

A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference

The twenty-one essays collected in "Ungraspable Phantom" are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel's problematic structure, its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and post-Freudian psychology, and...