tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6796987010127245296..comments2024-03-17T05:07:13.710-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: bibliographing's contribution to Melville scholarship - dusting the old lexicons and grammars - Long live responsible bloggers!Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79633666759563764002012-12-04T12:59:13.333-06:002012-12-04T12:59:13.333-06:00Nicole's name is spelled right. I love celebra...Nicole's name is spelled right. I love celebrating a blogger in a Very Serious Scholarly Book. Young folks, this is the way of the future. Bloggers young and old are going to be outdoing scholars more and more often, the way Nicole did.<br /><br />The book is gorgeous. Marianne Jankowski has made the book beautiful inside and out. I'm a lover of copper sconces and lamps, so I am delighted with the strip of copper on the spine that has the title in black, vertical. The black cloth feels good, not slick but substantial. I don't know the vocabulary for describing cloth! Northwestern did great with the physical book, and the editor, Anne Gendler, did much for what was inside. Do you have any idea who many tough decisions have to be made in indexing? She kept me guided, firmly. And that's just one way she helped. I have never been happier with a book.<br /><br />Nicole, all hail again! And thanks, Tom.Hershel Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919613095448470289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20785022091013520782012-11-23T15:42:37.373-06:002012-11-23T15:42:37.373-06:00Wonderful - congratulations on the publication of ...Wonderful - congratulations on the publication of the new book! And happy birthday!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3847405662473263072012-11-23T11:31:17.728-06:002012-11-23T11:31:17.728-06:00MELVILLE BIOGRAPH: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE, featuring ...MELVILLE BIOGRAPH: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE, featuring Nicole very prominently, is published. Copies are at Evanston and I hope to see one soon. Monday I turn 77. Maybe I will have a copy by then. Meanwhile, check out some early reviews on Amazon!<br />The designer, Marianne Jankowski, is a genius. Black cloth with copper, I am told.Hershel Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919613095448470289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45902416373155857562012-09-10T08:37:51.927-05:002012-09-10T08:37:51.927-05:00It's an eye-catching cover.It's an eye-catching cover.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79075527939578703562012-09-09T23:25:16.467-05:002012-09-09T23:25:16.467-05:00http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_19/176-18...<br />http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_19/176-1810097-7766801?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=parker+melville+biography+an+inside+narrative&sprefix=Parker+melville+bio%2Cstripbooks%2C322<br /><br />Here is a link. Sorry I don't know how to copy the picture. At least I found Nicole's blog!Hershel Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919613095448470289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71074507120182805802012-09-07T23:56:21.631-05:002012-09-07T23:56:21.631-05:00Tom, thank for for your comment and for the link t...Tom, thank for for your comment and for the link to my description of MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE. The designer Marianne Jankowski made a gorgeous, evocative cover. I'll see if I can post it here. Well, I'm too old and inept. It's on Amazon, though. Chapter 7 contrasts the low state of reviewing in what's left of newspapers and magazines with the hopeful signs of litblog and other blog reviewing.Hershel Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919613095448470289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28050414198902426362012-09-06T13:52:21.672-05:002012-09-06T13:52:21.672-05:00Prof. Parker, welcome! Thanks for the encourageme...Prof. Parker, welcome! Thanks for the encouragement.<br /><br />The forthcoming book - I'll link to <a href="http://fragmentsfromawritingdesk.blogspot.com/2012/07/melville-biography-amazon-now-has.html" rel="nofollow">the description at Parker's blog</a> - looks fascinating, and should have great interest to anyone who spends any time reading literary biographies, not just to Melville fans.<br /><br />This line of the description is intriguing: "In the third part, Parker invites readers into his biographical workshop and challenges them with ambitious research assignments." Rest up, amateurs, you've got some work ahead!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75599797366906149512012-09-06T12:32:35.323-05:002012-09-06T12:32:35.323-05:00MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE is in 2nd ...MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE is in 2nd pdf now, very far along. It contains a tribute to Nicole all couched in the very most proper blogging identification so any old person can find his or her way back here. I'm still excited about Nicole's discovery and what it suggests about a new era when ordinary (well, maybe extraordinary) literature lovers can outdo professional critics simply because they devote time and thought to their private projects then share their discoveries to the world out of pure love. All hail, Nicole, indeed, and the best of litbloggers everywhere.Hershel Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03919613095448470289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79659219801621436722011-02-23T22:09:46.615-06:002011-02-23T22:09:46.615-06:00Rebecca - skip Melville but read the Hawthorne ske...Rebecca - skip Melville but read the Hawthorne sketch if you are at all susceptible to the charms of the seashore.<br /><br />Writing is crucial to scholarship - to thinking, perhaps.<br /><br />Now - write up <i>Cranford</i>, please! Which is more important to hoard, string or butter?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-22338923881441304482011-02-23T21:43:42.799-06:002011-02-23T21:43:42.799-06:00wow, how exciting. I haven't read Clarel and I...wow, how exciting. I haven't read Clarel and I don't anticipate doing so anytime soon. But for me, it's just further proof that book bloggers are significant. <br /><br />That is, if we ever post our thoughts...as I HAVENT been doing..You are right, AR, writing is crucial to scholarship.Rebecca Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06062252252301802298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-78473612663634509572011-02-18T19:53:09.868-06:002011-02-18T19:53:09.868-06:00"You guys" - all I did is read along wit..."You guys" - all I did is read along with the readalong.<br /><br />Which was, admittedly, on my side at least, highly valuable - kept the focus where it ought to be. Helped that the poem is genuinely amazing. But nicole kept me on my toes.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-14255002300282267892011-02-18T15:41:22.600-06:002011-02-18T15:41:22.600-06:00There you go! I always knew that something good w...There you go! I always knew that something good would happen with somebody, namely you guys, reading Clarel. Landing the Moby Dick of Melville scholars is no small feat.zhivhttp://zhiv.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53890948825886291482011-02-18T12:20:15.169-06:002011-02-18T12:20:15.169-06:00Dwight - that comment of Parker's is self-dire...Dwight - that comment of Parker's is self-directed!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-5677110659922445152011-02-18T11:15:25.233-06:002011-02-18T11:15:25.233-06:00Congratulations nicole! Parker may be a little har...Congratulations nicole! Parker may be a little harsh on academics...we all fail to think at times (and for me, at longer periods I'm afraid). But who am I to get in the way of a good bashing? <br /><br />It's funny what turns up when reading and I'm happy to say I had a nice discussion with people at the Library of America on my post about Nabokov's possible mistake in Speak, Memory, where he thought he saw a rehearsal for a movie version of Hadji Murad (which according to the scant records available, could not have happened). I agree we'll see more of this as lit-blogging grows.<br /><br />Again, congrats!Dwighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688525659034403580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18445502534869271322011-02-18T10:37:38.918-06:002011-02-18T10:37:38.918-06:00How exciting! All hail responsible, thoughtful blo...How exciting! All hail responsible, thoughtful bloggers, indeed.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-6894412151913084182011-02-18T10:27:33.483-06:002011-02-18T10:27:33.483-06:00Since I love Melville (and the biography of him th...Since I love Melville (and the biography of him that you mention), please let me add my congratulations to all concerned.<br /><br />And about bird-watching: although the Roosevelt my work is based on is the other one, my favorite TR story is that he and his wife would wake up in the morning to birdsong outside, and if she asked him, he would tell her the names of the birds they were hearing.<br /><br />Lovely.Shelleyhttp://dustbowlpoetry.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62908509532441439222011-02-18T09:43:12.050-06:002011-02-18T09:43:12.050-06:00Very very nice, thank you!
Would I have remembere...Very very nice, thank you!<br /><br />Would I have remembered the pelting without writing about the sketch? I would say there is a tiny bit of "maybe" there, but mostly no.<br /><br />But what's more important, would I ever have read the sketch, not to mention <em>Clarel</em>, without writing about them? Would I have done the Melville project? Probably. Would I have skipped out on <em>Clarel</em> if no one was watching? Probably, at least for a few more decades.<br /><br />Also, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore" was the first I had read of Hawthorne since high school, and I only read it at all because of the anthology I had it in. I had memories only of Hawthorne hatred, and that sketch totally turned my opinion of him around. And of course I only started down that road at all because of a blog project previous to the Melville one.<br /><br />All hail litblogs!nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.com