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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Herman Melville"”.
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Herman Melville: Critic of Christianity
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… simply sensitive, imaginative writing. Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad’s five books set in the Polynesian and Malay Archipelagos—<em>Typee </em>and <em>Omoo</em> and the Malay Trilogy (<em>Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands,</em> and <em>The Rescue</em>)— are used as master …
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Air and brass : faith, philosophy, and events in the first six novels of Herman Melville
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville
… and directions of the narratives that Poe and Melville set at sea. What is proposed here is a rethinking of American sea fiction from the unique perspective of its racial dynamics, especially with regard to what Toni Morrison has called the "Black/Africanist presence" in American literature, a …
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AMERICAN MADNESS: THE FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLA CATHER, AND O.E. RØLVAAG
… centuries. The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag rely on the frontier and the theme of madness to depict characters’ aberrant behaviors. Using these depictions of madness, I explore questions of religion, violence, gender, and …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century practiced …
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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
… of three nineteenth-century American authors, Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in their rebellion, they relied upon genre …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville, articulated their criticisms of slavery and the law through their speeches, editorials, essays, and fiction and contributed to the culture of criticism that highlighted both the differences between abolitionists and the political …
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From Fear to Reverie: Incidents in Isolation in the American Wilderness
… </em>Nathaniel Hawthorne, and<em> </em>Herman Melville root America’s identity in the wilderness. They emphasize its power on the human psyche as positive, restorative, inward-looking, and divine. This thesis argues that these authors portray the wilderness as a protagonist that needs to …
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An aesthetic analysis of The Confidence-Man
… Renaissance the standard critical approach to Herman Melville is to see his creativity as the child of irresolvable Manichaean conflicts. However, this view can distort The Confidence Man, for though the novel builds on the clash of art and reality, it nonetheless establishes regularities in …
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Composing the body: narrative in the age of improvisation, 1770-1867
… of the slave. But other authors, including Herman Melville and Lydia Maria Child, took up the intersection of white and black musicality to recommend a new form of sympathetic listening, thereby challenging the nation’s dominate attitudes toward race.
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, and, especially, James Joyce, Kerouac used the influence of his predecessors to formulate his own style of writing-spontaneous prose. The critics who label Kerouac as a cultural icon akin to James Dean fail to see Kerouac as a …
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From typology to aesthetics in American literature
… Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville in order to investigate how typology was employed by each of them and develops into modern symbolism. This thesis documents some stages in the origins of symbolism and its usage in American literature as the latter increasingly …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… relentless criticism of existence pioneered by Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, a way of thinking that I claim, more than Emerson’s, nurtures the ameliorative impulse of pragmatism. To that end, I challenge the continuity of the Emerson-to-pragmatism story by showing how the critical …
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MOVEMENTS OF HUNTERS AND PILGRIMS: FORMS OF MOTION AND THOUGHT IN MOBY-DICK, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, AND CLAREL
… the form of pilgrimage, in three works of Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, The Confidence-Man, and Clarel. The thesis combines previous scholarly and critical perspectives on religion and philosophy in Melville with an interrogation of acts and metaphors of movement within these three works. …
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Space is the Place: Space, Place and Transformation in the work of James Attlee
… Horatio Clare, Guy Debord, Richard Mabey, Herman Melville, Iain Sinclair and James Wood, among others.
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