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Castration fears and mother complexes explain nothing about "Moby Dick," Thornton Wilder told an audience of 500 in his last Charles Eliot Norton lecture last night in Sanders Theatre...
Departing from psychoanalitic interpretations, Wilder outlined seven experiences which he asserted made Melville an outcast and pariah. These included revolts against 10th century American religious training and American faith in unlimited progress...
According to Wilder, "Mob Dick" represents a challenge to America's belief in "a gradual man-propelled amelioration." Melville's book, he said, is set apart from European literature because of its individualism, its abstractness, and its lack of "a sense...
...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give the final lecture of the series included in his appointment, at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. The subject of the lecture will be "The American Characteristics of Classical American Literature: Melville and the Real and the Forged Ambiguities...
...stipulation of the professorship--of one year's duration--Wilder will now prepare his lectures for publication by the Harvard University Press. Wilder said last night that he has no teaching plans for the immediate future...