The tranquility of the ocean: on Melville's philosophy of participation / Pawe± Jñedrzejko. The geopolitics of wandering in Conrad and Melville / Fiona Tomkinson -- Roving 'twixt land and sea: Melville and Conrad in the world system / James Weldon Long -- Typee and Almayer's Folly: a peep at literary beginnings / Sostene Massimo Zangari -- Melville's Spanish prisoner: piracy, confidence, copyright / Stephen Andrews -- Identity cruxes: Melville and Conrad and plagiarists / r Scott Norsworthy -- Wreckage and writing: problems of pseudo-autobiography in Melville's Omoo and Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea / Alex Calder -- "To follow the dream and again follow the dream": Don Quixote, Almayer and Conrad as multiple reflections of the dreamer / Agnieszka Adamowicz-Poâspiech -- Narcissus/Narcissus: men, myths, and ships in Melville and Conrad / Dennis Berthold -- The idea of vanitas in The Mirror of the Sea / Joanna Mstowska -- Melville and the magic mirror / Sarah Thwaites -- The tales of survivors: Moby-Dick in the mirror of Sam Peckinpah's western movie Major Dundee / Marek Paryâz -- Sailor talk in Melville and Conrad / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards -- Conrads realist seriousness and Melville's romance extravagance: the characterization of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and Ahab in Moby-Dick / Wendy Stallard Flory -- Rowing the man to doom: self-implication and narrative irony in Heart of Darkness and Moby-Dick / Susan Garbarini Fanning -- :Wreck ho, a wreck": melodrama and the text of muteness in Melville and Conrad / Wyn Kelley -- "Organic hesitancy": on speechlessness in Billy Budd / Ralph James Savarese -- "Infernal aforethought of malignity": Melville's whale, autism and the question of animal intelligence / Christopher Sten -- "Water, water, everywhere": vertiginous intersubjectivity in Conrad and Melville / Yael Levin -- Epistemological vertigo: knowledge and skepticism in Moby-Dick / Aubrey McPhail -- The tranquility of the ocean: on Melville's philosophy of participation / Pawe± Jñedrzejko.
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