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"Melville's personae in ""Moby Dick"""
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Moby Dick! The Musical: A Travesty In Travesti
Moby Dick! The Musical is a comedic parody based on Herman Melville's 1955 classic novel Moby Dick about a madman who seeks revenge on the great white whale that crippled his body and consumed his spirit. The thesis role I have chosen is "Starbuck", the ship's first mate. If this were a dramatic …
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A Study of the Dramatic Interludes in Moby Dick
… the merit of Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick, and accord it a high place in American literature, much that is disparaging has been written on Its disorderliness of style and structure, and the resultant lack of artistic unity. Adversely, many concede that Melville has produced in it …
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Moby-Dick als Leerstelle und romantische Chiffre für die Aporie eines transzendentalen Signifikats
Die Arbeit unternimmt den Versuch, Melvilles Moby-Dick als einen Vorboten postmoderner Literarizität in den Blick zu nehmen, der in seiner Autoreferentialität den eigenen textuellen Status kritisch-ironisierend reflektiert und Sprache als einen krisenhaften Zugang zu Welt und Kosmos ins Spiel …
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Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film
… increased as soon as I resolved on selecting Moby-Dick as the work originally responsible for issuing that slogan. Making this particular selection required the application of a dynamic concept which, appropriately, reflects critiques of knowledge production: "the Archive". Perhaps the most …
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
Reading Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851), this study examines literary arguments regarding Melville’s capacity to appear prophetic through his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my …
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
Reading Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851), this study examines literary arguments regarding Melville’s capacity to appear prophetic through his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my …
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I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale
In this thesis, I argue that Herman Melville's Moby Dick depicts the ocean and whales in a way that develops aesthetic theory into a proto-environmentalist message. Melville draws on theories of the mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing …
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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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Narrative Reflection and Anatomical Introspection in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick
… Sartor Resartus (1831) and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or, the Whale (1851) combine the novel and the anatomy, creating a plot as well as a reflection on the human condition. The result of this combination produces a narrator whose single-minded focus on an object both propels events forward …
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Narrative Reflection and Anatomical Introspection in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick
… Sartor Resartus (1831) and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or, the Whale (1851) combine the novel and the anatomy, creating a plot as well as a reflection on the human condition. The result of this combination produces a narrator whose single-minded focus on an object both propels events forward …
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Point of View as Key to the Narrative Structure, Symbolism, and Theme of Moby Dick
… to prove that a close study of point of view in Moby-Dick is useful as a key to narrative structure, symbolism, and thematic intention.
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"Allegory In Modern Fiction: A Study Of ""moby-dick,"" ""the Brothers Karamazov,"" And ""die Verwandlung."""
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"Neither Believer nor Infidel" Dialogic Portraits of Agnostic and Pragmatic Methodologies in Moby-Dick and Clarel
… the methodologies of agnosticism and pragmatism, Moby-Dick exemplifies an attitude of cheerful agnosticism, whereas Melville’s final major work, Clarel, exemplifies the frustrations of uncertainty. A primarily formal analysis allows scholars to view Melville both conforming and breaking out of …
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MOVEMENTS OF HUNTERS AND PILGRIMS: FORMS OF MOTION AND THOUGHT IN MOBY-DICK, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, AND CLAREL
… 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. This thesis probes …
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The Days Beyond Recall
… Praise Be A Flea: paradox and multeity in <em>Moby Dick</em>.” The essay situates Melville’s novel in the tradition of literary paradox from Classical paradoxographies to Early Modern scholars such as Robert Burton and Thomas Browne who utilize rhetorical paradox navigate theological and …
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