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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Ishmael"”.
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Ishmael: The Dissolution of a Romantic and the Emergence of a Poet.
<p>Although Ishmael does not appear to be a main character in <u>Moby Dick</u>, his narration is integral to the text. Only through telling the story is Ishmael able to give himself a concrete identity, which is reflected not only through himself, but through the thoughts, speeches, and actions of …
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Reading to Write: Olson's Melville
… MA thesis and archival research to Call Me Ishmael, through to considerations of this scholarly activity in the making of his poetry. From the 1930s and 40s to the late 1960s, Olson’s compositional practice is associated with the way Melville ‘read to write’. This thesis seeks to delimit the …
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Narrative Reflection and Anatomical Introspection in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick
… Moby Dick, through his characters Ahab and Ishmael, picks up the threads of identity and the quest for truth and meaning that Carlyle examined with the characters of Teufelsdröckh and the Editor. Looking to combat feelings of hopelessness stemming from society and the self, each narrator—the …
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Narrative Reflection and Anatomical Introspection in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick
… Moby Dick, through his characters Ahab and Ishmael, picks up the threads of identity and the quest for truth and meaning that Carlyle examined with the characters of Teufelsdröckh and the Editor. Looking to combat feelings of hopelessness stemming from society and the self, each narrator—the …
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Kickaround Nixon
… Melville's Moby-Dick, but with the characters of Ishmael and Ahab switched position-wise to better mesh with the zeitgeist of the 1980s. Moreover, the novel attempts to explore the subjects of homosexuality, potentiality spaces, history, and the Information Age.</p>
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Solitary Souls: Awakening Responses in American Literature
… American fictional characters like Melville's Ishmael, Twain's Huck Finn, and Chopin's Edna Pontellier strive to see themselves accurately in relation to others and to American society in general. During this process of self-definition, these characters frequently experience an awakening, an …
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“I must turn idolator”: religious inversion and the quest for genuine faith in Moby-Dick
… other religious inversions, I will explore how Ishmael repents of a false view of immorality, finds redemption through an immoral union, and follows a wicked captain who offers the hope of expiating spiritual guilt. When seen together, these inverted religious themes help us understand the …
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Moby-Dick als Leerstelle und romantische Chiffre für die Aporie eines transzendentalen Signifikats
… hin befragt und dadurch wieder aufbricht. Eine ishmaelische Lektüre des Moby-Dick bestünde darin, den Anspruch auf Letztbegründetheit im Sinne der différance Derridas aufzuschieben und sich damit der Gravitation eines transzendentalen Signifikats zu entziehen. Liest man die cetologischen Kapitel …
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Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature
… how American novelists William Faulkner, Ishmael Reed, and Helena María Viramontes used epidemic as a fictional framework for examining and critiquing the ways that the US social body was imagined, constructed, and reinforced through an epidemiological lens. Using stylistic and formal …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
… Witchcraft Rootwork, and fiction by authors Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Gloria Naylor. By tracing the ways in which representations of African-based beliefs have been constructed across formal and disciplinary boundaries, this thesis argues that at moments of …
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Promise and Freedom, Flesh and Slavery: Paul's Hermeneutical Key in Galatians 4:21-5:1 in Light of the Themes and the Structure of Galatians
… promise and flesh, as helpfully stated in 4:23. Ishmael was not “cast out” because of his sinfulness or supposed ethnic deficiencies, but rather because he was born “κατὰ σάρκα” and not “δι᾽ ἐπαγγελίας.” These comparative realities are not introduced here in the allegory for the first time; …
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Spontaneous and Leaderless: The Anarchist Impulse in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Fiction
… era of writers such as Thomas Pynchon and Ishmael Reed. This historical cause has been missed because radical scholarship has misunderstood anarchist theory and practice as violent and irrationalist, when it has not ignored anarchism entirely. Reexamining classic works of anarchist theory, …
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Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture
… and inevitable loss, of wealth. In contrast, Ishmael Reed’s MumboJumbo presents a very different frisson of social rebellion that is determined to find fulfillment within its defiance and re-appropriation of cultural identity, no matter the stacked-odds confronting protagonists. And, …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… E.D.E.N. Southworth: Mark Sutherland (1854), Ishmael (1863--4), and The Hidden Hand (1859). Each of these characters is a Southern aristocrat by birth who comes to define himself in opposition to aristocratic norms via association with a marginalized group. Responding to criticism that …
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Differential vulnerability and adaptive responses to climate change-related hazards in informal urban settlements in Accra, Ghana
Current processes of informal urbanisation and marginalisation of informal dwellers, present a challenge for sustainable adaptation to climate change in cities of developing countries. At present, over half of the global population live in urban areas while much of future urban growth would be in …
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Petrofabric investigation of the sulfide-rich basal zone of the Duluth Complex
The South Kawishiwi Intrusion (SKI) of the 1.1 Ga Duluth Complex hosts significant Cu–Ni–PGE sulfide deposits concentrated within its basal contact zone. Although the geochemical signatures of these ores are well documented, the physical mechanisms responsible for focusing sulfur-rich melts remain …
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
The existing literature about the causes of welfare state change, including health care reform, emphasizes stability, yet there is evidence of remarkable changes taking place in welfare systems in much of the developing world. This study analyzes health care reform in Ghana, a country which has …
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Working capital management and profitability of UK firms: a contingency theory approach.
While the direct impact of working capital management (WCM) and its components (accounts receivable in days (AR), accounts payable in days (AP) and inventory holding period (INV)) on firms’ profitability has been examined in the previous literature, the underlying channels of influence have …
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Perceived influence of cybersecurity on the intention to use mobile banking applications
Banking institutions see the adoption and usage of mobile devices for banking namely mobile banking as an innovative financial service delivering strategy that bridges the gap between customers and banks. Mobile banking eliminates the need to visit bank branches for banking services and it …
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Operationalizing research data services in Academic libraries in Africa: case of the University of Namibia
This study investigated operationalising research data services in academic libraries in Africa by using a case of the University of Namibia (UNAM). The purpose of the study was to enquire the extent to which librarians have the necessary knowledge and skills which will enable them to provide …
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