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Captain Ahab was an American electronic music duo based in Los Angeles, California. They referred to their DIY take on jumpstyle and electropop music as "ravesploitation". The band was made up of producer/vocalist Jonathan Snipes and hype man Jim Merson.
Ahab is a German funeral doom metal band founded in 2004 by Midnattsol guitarists Christian Hector and Daniel Droste. The band is named after Captain Ahab, a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
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Ahab was named by his insane, widowed mother, who died when he was twelve months old. The etymology of the name Ahab derives from the Hebrew, meaning "father's brother" as cited in Strong's Concordance no. 256. At age 18, Ahab first took to sea as a harpooner. Less than three voyages earlier, Ahab married a girl, with whom he had a young son. He ha...
According to Melville biographer Leon Howard, "Ahab is a Shakespearean tragic hero, created according to the Coleridgean formula." The creation of Ahab, who apparently does not derive from any captain Melville sailed under, was heavily influenced by the observation in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet that "one of Shakespeare's modes of c...
Ahab's character is shaped by mythic and literary patterns that overlap and reinforce each other in such a complementary way that "the apparent irony of one allusion is frequently the truth of another." For instance, allusions to Oedipus, which flesh out Ahab's ignorance and lack of self-knowledge, are complemented by references to Narcissus, which...
Critical
When the book was first published, reviewers mostly focused on Ahab and the whale. According to George Ripley in Harper's New Monthly Magazine for December 1851, Ahab "becomes the victim of a deep, cunning monomania; believes himself predestined to take a bloody revenge on his fearful enemy; pursues him with fierce demoniac energy of purpose."Ripley admires the creation of Ahab, who "opens upon us with wonderful power. He exercises a wild, bewildering fascination by his dark and mysterious na...
Films, television and video
The first two film adaptations show "the radical surgery that Hollywood performed on Herman Melville's masterpiece." The first was a 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, a romantic love story in which the character of Ahab (John Barrymore) is transformed into "a handsome young sailor", a New Bedford harpooner who has little in common with Ahab, not even his full name, which is extended to Ahab Ceeley. Though, in the book, Ahab has already lost his leg, in the film, a "crude papier mache monster"...
Comic books
Ahab appears quite frequently in humorous comic strips and cartoons. Without effort an entire anthology of this material (caricature, gag cartoons, editorial cartoons) could be assembled. The one strip that most often refers to Melville is Peanuts by Charles Schulz.The futuristic comic book supervillain Ahab uses harpoons. An acclaimed version of Moby Dick and Ahab was made by the trio of Argentine artists consisting of Enrique Breccia, Leopoldo Durañona and Guillermo Saccomanno, which was re...
Games
In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the story of Venom Snake(initially introduced as Ahab) also appears to be somewhat inspired by the fate Captain Ahab. In addition, the transport helicopter regularly used by the player is referred to as Pequod. In This Is the Police, the main character Jack Boyd is frequently compared to Ahab. The first boss in the indie game Noitu Love 2– Mordecai Fluke – is based on Ahab. In Limbus Company during the third part of "Canto V: The Evil Defining", the ch...
Barbour, James. (1986). "Melville Biography: A Life and the Lives." A Companion to Melville Studies. Ed. John Bryant. New York, Westport, London: Greenwood Press.Delbanco, Andrew. (2005). Melville: His World and Work. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780375403149Heflin, Wilson. (2004). Herman Melville's Whaling Years. Eds. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas Farel Heffernan. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.Howard, Leon. (1940). "Melville's Struggle with the Angel." Modern Language Quarterly, June 1940. Reprinted in Hershel Parker (ed.), The Recognition of Herman Melville. Selected Criticism since 184...Electronic music duo who dealt in a wide range of pop, dance and hardcore genres. Their work has been on television for such shows as Caprica and the US version of The Office, as well as on the film Snakes on a Plane. Formed in 1998, disbanded November 2012.
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Apr 17, 2006 · After the Rain My Heart Still Dreams by Captain Ahab, released 17 April 2006 1. Ride 2. Girls Gone Wild 3. Where my Dogs at? 4. I Can't Wait for Summer 5. Old Like You 6. Partybaby 7. His Sexy Moves 8.
