Chapter 5, Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist, has a great take on Melville's Pierre as "Titanic failure":
"Basically, the novel takes a character of Hamlet-like mourning, confuses it with Promethean suffering and Faustian ambition for unprecedented experience, and latterly superimposes on this figure a career of writing" (page 155).In Memoriam: Aexander Welsh
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