Call me Ishmael / Charles Olson --

The early novels : Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket / Newton Arvin --

The metaphysics of Indian-hating / Hershel Parker --

Melville's gray story : symbols and meaning in "Benito Cereno" / Guy Cardwell --

Melville after Moby-Dick : the tales / R.W.B. Lewis --

Ishmael : the nature and forms of despair / Paul Brodtkorb, Jr. --

Melville the poet / Robert Penn Warren --

The changing face of comedy / Elaine Barry --

Mardi : creating the creative / Richard H. Brodhead --

The entangled text : Pierre and the problem of reading / Edgar A. Dryden --

Form as vision in Clarel / Bryan C. Short --

The Somers mutiny and Billy Budd : Melville in the penal colony / Michael Paul Rogin --

Ahab's name : a reading of "The symphony" / P. Adams Sitney.