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Whats the best edition of moby dick? I'm gonna pick it up but I wanna get the best one

>> No.9697419

Just cop whatevers cheapest desu

>> No.9697445

>>9697345
Moby Dikk with 2 k's by Edmund Wells. It's more thorough than the Melville version.

>> No.9697449

i got the signet classics because it was cheapest. it doesnt really matter

>> No.9697454
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>>9697345
Get the Loa edition

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>>9697345
This one

>> No.9697480

>>9697463
>Introduction by Edward Said

O lord give me strength. Does he focus on Queequeg, by any chance?

>> No.9697494

>>9697480
What's wrong with him?

>> No.9697498

>>9697494
what isn't?

>> No.9697511

>>9697498
Explain

>> No.9697531

>>9697498
What's wrong with Said? I honestly thought an introduction from him fits the book perfectly

>> No.9697534

>>9697494
I approach Edward "Orientalism" Said with scepticism, finding his criticism reductive and not in accordance with my natural interests and sympathies. Given the immense depth and complexity of Moby-Dick, I expect Said to focus on Queequeg and argue that Melville's depiction is inaccurate and reflective of the inherent racism of his time. That's likely unfair, but I see him as a academic version of Achebe dismissing Conrad.

You know, Said himself is fine and I've been unfair to his work. His legacy continues to stink up the corridors of the university, though. I've been unfair, but I'd still read that intro with my nose plugged.

>> No.9697538

>>9697531
I'd actually like to know what he wrote, then. Can you give me the gist?

>> No.9697573

>>9697538
Postcolonialism

>> No.9697580

>>9697345
For actual additional content and scholarship? Norton Critical.

>> No.9697609

Is there an abridged Moby Dick that takes out the endless reams of cetology bs and leaves in the good stuff (nailing the coin to the mast, etc), kind like what Jefferson did with the NT?

t. Patrician in a hurry

>> No.9697629

>>9697573
I fear my prejudice was not inaccurate, then.

When I approach Moby's Dick, postcolonialism is one of the last tools I'd take out of the interpretive box.

>> No.9697665

>>9697345

Has there not been 10 of this same thread already this week?

>> No.9697754

>>9697609
I don't get the cetology hate. I found the outdated science really cool and thought it added a layer to the book (discussing the vastness and beauty of whales, giving them something of an unknowable quality due to the gaps in knowledge).

>> No.9697803

>>9697609
Not gonna make it.

>> No.9697865

>>9697754
I like how it's a nice reference to eaely American writers like Emerson, and Thoreau, where they would talk about the different resources in the New World to convince people to immigrate here. I'm not sure if the same was done for the Gold Rush, but I would presume that they did

>> No.9697876

>>9697534
>Said himself is fine and I've been unfair to his work. His legacy continues to stink up the corridors of the university,

Oh bullshit. A million academics have had their ideas distorted and parodied by trendy academics wannabe-celebrities looking for the next big thing, you can't blame Said for that.

>> No.9697963

>>9697609
Is there an abridged version without the outdated take on Muslims?

>> No.9697980
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This one.
>cheap
>has introduction
>has epilogue
>has endnotes

>> No.9698025

>>9697345
The Norton edition has their usual ugly font but at least they use footnotes rather than endnotes.

>> No.9698050

>>9698025
Footnotes are ugly as shit.

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>ruining Moby Dick with footnotes
ISHYGDDT

>> No.9698237

>>9697345

The best edition is one that is read
Once there was someone on /lit/ with that one, but they're long gone

>> No.9698244

This is the 3rd thread about Moby-Dick editions this week
Just get one

>> No.9699636

>>9697580
I second this.

Northwestern-newbury text, editoed by herschel and parker, solid contexts and critical comments at the end, generously footnoted.

This is the one to get

>> No.9699644

Everyman's Library

Yes, it's Northwestern-Newberry, and it's a beautiful hardcover.

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best one is the one with the big whale

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>>9697609
>this shit again

THE CETOLOGY IS INTERGRAL TO THE UNDERSTAND OF THE WHALE AS A BOTH MUNDANE AND SUPERNATURAL BEING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE BOOK AND THE 19TH CENTURY WHALING INDUSTRY

TO SKIP THESE PARTS IS TO SKIP HALF OF THE BOOK IN EVERY POSSIBLE SENSE OF THE WORD REEEEEEEE

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>He fell for the Moby Dick meme

>> No.9700041

>>9697463
>intro by edward said

>> No.9700051

>>9697609
>t. patrician
Nope

>> No.9700213

>>9700001
Kys my man.

>> No.9700545

>>9700041
What's so wrong with Edward Said???

>> No.9700555

>>9700041
I don't even know who this is... can soneine explain why everyone here hates him?

>> No.9700558

>>9700555
Postcolonial studies are cancer to put it short.

>> No.9700565

>>9700555
He was a leftist and this board is mostly fascist.

>> No.9700569

>>9700558
Why exactly are they 'cancer' ?
>>9700565
How left?