"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
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Leon Parker and Harrison Hayford 2006
MONSTROUS COMPOUNDS: GENRE AND VALUE IN HERMAN MELVILLE
DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Jason L. Corner, M. A. The Ohio State University 2006 Dissertation
Approved by Professor Elizabeth Renker, Adviser
Many critics, including Leon Parker and Harrison Hayford, have produced convincing evidence that Melville’s intentions changed over the course of writing. The bulk of the evidence such critics cite suggests that Melville began with the intention of focusing the narrative entirely around Ishmael, and deciding in the process that Ahab would be an important character




