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Melville's "Moby-Dick".(19th-century writer Herman Melville)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010322
Author:THOMPSON, TERRY W.

Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a "framing" of a book's action. That is to say, the author introduces and concludes the work with the same narrator--or with the same setting or with a recurrent image--thus bringing the action, characters, theme, plot, and so on full circle. The technique helps to bring order and coherence to a traditionally structured narrative.

Moby-Dick--considered by most to be Herman Melville's greatest work, and thought by many eminent scholars to be the finest novel ever written by an ...

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