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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Moby Dick."”.
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“I must turn idolator”: religious inversion and the quest for genuine faith in Moby-Dick
… of repentance, redemption, and expiation in Moby-Dick. While critics have examined some of these themes in isolation, my thesis will demonstrate how Melville takes these Christian doctrines and inverts them in order to display a shift from traditional religious practice to a genuine faith for …
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
Much scholarship is dedicated to Melville’s religious themes, and other scholarship carefully analyzes the innovative formal techniques used by Melville, such as biblical allusion, digressive essays, and philosophical musings imbedded in fiction. However, religious analysis often turns to …