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Treichel, Tamara. ""And so hell's probable" : Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" and "Pierre" as descent narratives /." Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. http://www.wvttrier.de.

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Treichel, Tamara. ""And so hell's probable" Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Pierre as descent narratives." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. http://www.wvttrier.de.

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Hänssgen, Eva. "Herman Melvilles 'Moby-Dick' und das antike Epos /." Tübingen : G. Narr, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390763590.

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Gambarotto, Bruno. "Modernidade e mistificação em Moby-Dick, de Herman Melville." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-14032013-104328/.

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Neste estudo de análise e interpretação de Moby-Dick (1851), de Herman Melville (1819-1891), pretendemos formular e esclarecer questões relativas ao momento de definição do romance norte-americano, bem como à obra que se traduz como o esforço mais radical de um norte-americano na tentativa de, então, levar a forma romance ao estudo e reflexão sobre sua sociedade. Para tanto, recuperamos da leitura da obra os aspectos que mais fortemente tematizam tal intento: a crise ideológica de fins da década de 1840, quando os ideais revolucionários de igualdade da antiga república são finalmente confronta
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Ott, Sara. "Paradox and philosophical anticipation in Melville’s Moby-Dick." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/385.

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Much of the current critical literature on Moby-Dick lacks a unifying focus. This essay attempts to provide a thread of continuity for Moby-Dick by proving that paradox and Herman Melville’s anticipation of the early existential movement hold the key to a full reading of this text. By viewing the text itself, Melville’s personal correspondence, and the writings of Emerson, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, the paradoxical tension by which this text must be read comes into clearer focus.<br>Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<br>"May 2006."<br>Includ
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Schlarb, Damien Brian Melville Herman. "Melville's quest for certainty questing and spiritual stability in Herman Melville's Moby dick /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12012006-094528/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Reiner Smolinski, committee chair; Robert Sattelmeyer, Paul Schmidt, committee members. Electronic text (121 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 19. 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).
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GENIN, ISABELLE. "Les trois traductions francaises de moby-dick de herman melville." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030059.

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La these est une etude comparative des trois traductions francaises de moby-dick de h. Melville: celle de jean giono, lucien jacques et joan smith (1941), celle d'armel guerne (1954), et celle d'henriette guex-rolle (1970). L'etude de nombreux exemples est faite du point de vue du lecteur: lecteur anglophone et francophone. Le but est de degager les grandes tendances de chaque texte, de reperer les procedes deformants et de mettre au jour les espaces de creation qui apparaissent dans chaque version. L'ecriture du roman presente d'immenses difficultes pour le traducteur qui doit affronter des c
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Recker, Astrid. ""But truth is ever incoherent ..." : dis/continuity in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" /." Heidelberg : Universitäsverlag C. Winter, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783825355180.

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Pernelle, Beatrix. "La représentation dans Moby-Dick." Nice, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993NICE2019.

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Des nombreux tableaux et gravures évoqués dans le texte jusqu'aux tatouages et autres hiéroglyphes, Moby Dick est un roman marque par la multiplicité des représentations. Il semble que la représentation littéraire soit régie par la loi du narcissisme, qui règle tous les doubles et les jeux de miroir présents dans la fiction melvilienne. L'écriture permet en effet au moi de se représenter selon un processus qui, détruisant la plénitude narcissique de l'infans, contribue en même temps à la constitution du sujet. Mais la lettre en tant que trace écrite est loin d'établir une correspondance prééta
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Pino, Morales Cristián. "Moby Dick and trascendental Decadence." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/110469.

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Jabalpurwala, Inez. "Reading that brow : interpretive strategies and communities in Melville's Moby-dick." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60042.

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This thesis considers Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as a textual strategy of possible, alternative models of reading, as well as a text in itself. I approach the text as a drama of interpretations and argue that the individual consciousnesses of different interpreters represent different interpretive strategies, and that these differences suggest distinct structures of community. This approach becomes more focussed in the discussion of Ahab and Ishmael as representatives of two contrasting interpretive possibilities, of "reading" the text as a "pasteboard mask" which conceals a stable identity a
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Derail-Imbert, Agnès. "Allures du corps dans Moby-Dick; or The Whale de Herman Melville." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081931.

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@Moby-Dick se donne à la fois et contradictoirement comme livre anatomique et anatomie du livre : le corps s'y montre comme la tentation charnelle de l'écriture mais cette inclination est contrariée par la crainte que l'écriture ne sombre dans le mutisme de la chair ou à l'inverse qu'écrit, le corps ne soit sacrifié au monument du livre. Cette étude explore les puissantes tensions qui travaillent ce livre né du prodigieux désir d'incarner un corps colossal, d'en être le sens ultime. . .
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Recker, Astrid. ""But truth is ever incoherent ..." dis/continuity in Herman Melvillesś Moby-Dick." Heidelberg Winter, 2007. http://d-nb.info/989735265/04.

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Dove-Rumé, Janine. "Quête, communication et connaissance étude des "gams" dans "Moby-Dick" or "The Whale" de Herman Melville." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37597439w.

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Schlarb, Damien Brian. "Melville's Quest for Certainty: Questing and Spiritual Stability in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/17.

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This paper investigates Herman Melville’s quest for spiritual stability and certainty in his novel Moby-Dick. The analysis establishes a philosophical tradition of doubt towards the Bible, outlining the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, Benedict de Spinoza, David Hume, Thomas Paine and John Henry Newman. This historical survey of spiritual uncertainty establishes the issue of uncertainty that Melville writes about in the nineteenth century. Having assessed the issue of doubt, I then analyze Melville’s use of metaphorical charts, which his characters use to resolve this issue. Finally, I present M
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Figueira, Vinicius Duarte. "Jornada rumo ao crepúsculo : uma leitura nietzschiana de Moby-Dick." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10975.

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Este trabalho é de natureza teórica e estuda a obra Moby-Dick, de Herman Melville, à luz da filosofia antimetafísica de Friedrich Nietzsche, mais especificamente como está concretizada em Sobre verdade e mentira em sentido extramoral e Crepúsculo dos ídolos. Demonstra-se que as indagações de fundo ontológico presentes na obra de Melville encontram resposta parcial na noção de impossibilidade metafísica do pensador alemão. Para tal demonstração, recorre-se, em primeiro lugar, a uma sistematização do pensamento de Nietzsche e, em segundo, a uma abordagem interpretativa e compreensiva do texto de
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Dove-Rumé, Janine. "Quête, communication et connaissance : étude des "Gams" dans Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale de Herman Melville." Paris 8, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA080053.

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Il existe dans Moby-Dick; or, The Whale de Herman Melville, ecrit en 1851, neuf rencontres entre baleiniers en mer. Ces rencontres designees sous le nom de "gams" ne correspondent nullement a la definition donnee par melville. Par une etude textuelle approfondie, je montre que ces "gams" depassent le cadre de la narration pour s'inscrire dans une trame symbolique complexe; qu'ils representent, en quelque sorte, une miniaturisation du roman dans son ensemble; et que leur message profond est en relation etroite avec le probleme de l'ecriture et du langage, problemes qui font l'objet de mon intro
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Mittermaier, Sten. "The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8324.

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<p>In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. Without a god, without an entity greater than man, man has no higher purpose than himself and he himself is inevitably transient. As such, man, so long as he lives, is cursed with the inability to create or partake in anything lasting. The absurd is life without a tomorrow,
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Graham, Andrew Lindsay. "Federalism and fiction in the United States Constitution and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick." Thesis, Keele University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359159.

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Evans, David B. "Scepticism at sea : Herman Melville and philosophical doubt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a842c507-0efc-4b73-9aaa-ccc36f54a7a5.

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This thesis explores Herman Melville’s relationship to sceptical philosophy. By reading Melville’s fictions of the 1840s and 1850s alongside the writings of Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, I seek to show that they manifest by turns expression, rebuttal, and mitigated acceptance of philosophical doubt. Melville was an attentive reader of philosophical texts, and he refers specifically to concepts such as Berkeleyan immaterialism and the Kantian “noumenon”. But Melville does not simply dramatise pre-existing theories; rather, in works such as Mardi, Moby-Dick, and Pierre he enacts sceptical
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Calor, Viviane Cristine. "Vagar e navegar: pelo mar de Melville e o sertão de Rosa. Estudo Comparativo entre Moby-Dick e Grande Sertão: veredas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-26032012-181440/.

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Embora haja um intervalo de mais de um século entre a publicação de Moby-Dick (1851) e a de Grande sertão: veredas (1956), o romance de João Guimarães Rosa apresenta, quer na forma, quer no conteúdo ou em seus respectivos desdobramentos alegóricos, muitos pontos em comum com o livro de Herman Melville. Produtos de literaturas periféricas de países ainda em processo de formação, essas obras são narrativas híbridas que não se encaixam na concepção original do romance moderno europeu (ou novel): ambas resgatam e transformam a épica e a tragédia, os chamados gêneros altos, para dar voz a um indiví
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Chodat, Robert. "Games of circles : dialogic irony in Carlyle's Sartor resartus, Melville's Moby Dick, and Thoreau's Walden." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23713.

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This thesis examines the connections between three frequently associated nineteenth-century texts, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Melville's Moby Dick, and Thoreau's Walden. It begins by reviewing the contexts normally offered for them, and then proposes an alternative one, "dialogic irony," that is based upon the complementary theoretical models of Friedrich Schlegel and Mikhail Bakhtin. After this conceptual background is outlined, the various modes of dialogic irony presented in the three works are discussed. That of Walden arises out of a close analogy between self and text: both are a series
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Midan, Marc. "Milton & Melville : le démon de l'allusion." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070086.

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Milton &amp; Melville : Le Démon de l'allusion étudie la signification de l'allusion à Milton dans Taïpi, Moby¬Dick, L'Escroc à la confiance et Billy-Budd, Marin. Un état détaillé de la recherche sur les rapports entre les deux auteurs montre la prédominance d'une conception de l'allusion comme moyen d'identifier le sens d'un texte incertain à celui d'un autre, supposé stable ; or, il s'agit, en réalité, d'une relation dynamique et réciproque. Ludique, satirique, impie, ou érotique, l'allusion melvillienne est multiforme et variable ¬ondoiement qui la dérobe à une approche trop générale, mais
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Pritchard, Gregory R., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Econstruction: The nature/culture opposition in texts about whales and whaling." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050826.111722.

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A perceived opposition between 'culture' and 'nature', presented as a dominant, biased and antagonistic relationship, is engrained in the language of Western culture. This opposition is reflected in, and adversely influences, our treatment of the ecosphere. I argue that through the study of literature, we can deconstruct this opposition and that such an ‘ecocritical’ operation is imperative if we are to avoid environmental catastrophe. I examine the way language influences our relationship with the world and trace the historical conception of ‘nature’ and its influence on the English language.
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Ramírez, Paredes Roberto Marcos. "Ese aire de mágico aislamiento: Herman Melville y la construcción de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673683.

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La tesis doctoral propone un recorrido por la prosa de ficción y de viaje de Herman Melville, en la que construye imaginarios regionales de identidad latinoamericana. La investigación inicia con el análisis de las ficciones Taipí y Omú, ambientadas en islas “no civilizadas”, para contrastarlas con los tres textos literarios que versan sobre o se desarrollan en América Latina: Las Encantadas, Benito Cereno y Moby Dick, además de otros textos más cortos de su acervo, como el cuento “La veranda”, que dialogan sobre todo de ámbitos peruanos y ecuatorianos. En las tres ficciones mencionadas se d
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Angeles, Marie. "On the Matter of God’s Goodness: An Examination of the Failure of Theodicies, Herman Melville, and an Alternative Approach to the Problem of Evil." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/475.

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Within Judeo-Christianity there is a belief in an all perfect God who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. However, in this world evil and suffering exists, so how is it possible that an all perfect God can exist? This is called the problem of evil. This thesis examines the problem of evil and how philosophers like Alvin Plantinga, John Hick, and Richard Swinburne attempt to solve the problem of evil through different theodicies. In this paper I argue that all three philosophers and their theodicies fail to solve the problem of evil. I then turn to the writings of Herman Melville, sp
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Wright, Andrew James. "Dialecticism and 'negativity' in Melville, Kafka and Blanchot : a literature and language of conflict." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28213.

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This thesis approaches literature and language as processes of conflict. Conflict is defined according to the philosophy of ‘negativity’ and an applied understanding of Hegelian dialecticism. Conflict, in simple terms, is a process in which language simultaneously asserts and negates. The literary text, or object, is lisible both structurally and thematically in terms of conflict. The key texts examined in this thesis are Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851); Franz Kafka’s The Castle (1926); and Maurice Blanchot’s Thomas the Obscure (1950) and Awaiting Oblivion (1962). Several features eme
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Wilkins, Peter Duncan. "The transformation of the circle : an exploration of the post-encyclopaedic text." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26939.

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Any text which criticizes, undermines and/or transforms the encyclopaedic ideal of ordering and textualizing the world in a closed, linear fashion can be defined as a post-encyclopaedic text. This thesis explores both theoretical and artistic texts which inhabit the realm of post-encyclopaedism. In the past, critical speculation on encyclopaedism in literature has been concerned with the ways in which artistic texts attempt to live up to the encyclopaedic ideal. In some cases, this effort to establish an identity between the artistic text and the encyclopaedia has led to an ignorance of the d
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Angeletti, Valerio. "La disciplina dell’esule: la letteratura comparata in America tra esilio e utopia e il caso studio Paolo Milano." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/349476.

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Lo studio ha riflettuto su alcune costanti della letteratura comparata che accomunano tale disciplina all’esilio, quando chi lo vive è in grado di contrastare i molti traumi che esso può comportare.L’emigrazione intellettuale avvenuta nel corso degli anni Trenta e Quaranta è l’evento storico a cui lo studio ha fatto riferimento. Costringendo molti intellettuali ad abbandonare i propri posti di lavoro e le proprie case, questa emigrazione ha contribuito a una notevole mobilitazione culturale soprattutto dall’Europa verso gli Stati Uniti d’America, dove ha cominciato a svilupparsi una nuova comp
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Myrén, Alexander. "Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70906.

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In conceptualizing Moby-Dick; or, the whale, Herman Melville was both drawn and opposed to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through an analysis of the main characters in MobyDick and Emerson’s writing, it becomes evident that Transcendentalism is embodied in the characterization of the novel’s main characters. I argue that the eventual fates of characters in the novel reveal Melville’s criticism of Emerson’s ideas. Moreover, the depiction of ocean and land as a symbol of the soul in Moby-Dick mirrors Emerson’s idealized relationship between man and nature. However, the ambiguous and horrific
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Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277633/.

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America has adopted as its own the Eden myth, which has provided the mythology of the American dream. This New Garden of America, consequently, has been a masculine garden because of its dependence on the myth of the Fall. Implied in the American dream is the idea of a garden without Eve, or at least without Eve's sin, traditionally associated with sexuality. Our canonical literature has reflected these attitudes of devaluing feminine power or making it a negative force: The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. To recreate the
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Peters, Matthias. "Moby-Dick als Leerstelle und romantische Chiffre für die Aporie eines transzendentalen Signifikats." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4307/.

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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 bringt. Sie legt dar, dass Melvilles opus magnum ein im Verlaufe der abendländischen Philosophie epistemologisch und semiologisch virulent gewordenes Krisenbewusstsein vom "Phantasma der Umfassung der Wirklichkeit" (Lyotard) einerseits auf inhaltlicher und andererseits autoreferentiell auf der Ebene der é
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Smith, Alana. "Cutting the Gordian Knot: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Moby-Dick and Absalom, Absalom!" ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/911.

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This thesis attempts to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between the American social system and its depiction in American fiction, principally in Moby-Dick and Absalom, Absalom!? and How can one disentangle the workings of race, gender, and sexuality in the American social system, when such a knot depends upon queer desire for its strength and energy to an exaggerated degree? Ultimately, I argue that one way to pull these threads apart is to implement a queer deconstructive approach informed by narrative theories of desire, but to begin to answer this question, I conten
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Spencer, Benjamin Paul. "Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31492.

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For close to a decade, I have weighed comparative approaches to â the Great American Novelâ . Progress 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: â the Archiveâ . Perhaps the most direct references to a conceptual archive appear in Derridaâ s Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, which addresses the dual forces â preservation/destructionâ that influence allegory and mythol
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Collberg, Jonas. "Peqoud." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17075.

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Pequod - is an exploration of the translation problem. And an idea to examine the myth of&quot;why the book is always better than the movie.&quot;The work began by choosing a character to interpret. My choice was the characteristicCaptain Ahab and his mono manic quest for revenge. The character is taken from HermanMenvilles classic novel &quot;Moby Dick&quot; or &quot;The White wale&quot; from 1851.In order to interpret the character differently, I picked out passages from the novel thatdirectly describes the first sight of the character. And also a paragraph describing thecharacter&apos;s inn
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Casati, Rafael. "Caracterização tafonômica das concentrações fossilíferas da Formação Cape Melville, Grupo Moby Dick (Mioceno Inferior), Ilha Rei George, Antártica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/44/44139/tde-19122007-101537/.

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Trabalhos objetivando a tafonomia de concentrações fossilíferas geradas em ambiente glacial ou periglacial são raros. Neste contexto, a presente dissertação realizou a caracterização tafonômica das concentrações fossilíferas da Formação Cape Melville, Grupo Moby Dick (Mioceno Inferior), Ilha Rei George, Antártica, tendo em vista a elucidação da gênese destes depósitos. Para tanto, dados relativos a um total de 534 espécimes foram obtidos nas camadas ricamente fossilíferas das quatro seções, denominadas Pingüineira (PRS), Hard Ground (HGS), Chaminé (CS) e Lava Crag (LCS), levantadas no topo da
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Lee, Yonghwa. "Diving Deep for “The Ungraspable Phantom of Life”: Melville’s Philosophical and Aesthetic Inquiries into Human Possibilities in Moby-Dick." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243629090.

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Goodrum, Emily A. "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/27534.

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Glover, Albert Dale Kirby David. "Ceci n'est pas une Baleine surrealist images in Moby-Dick /." 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-09012003-000022.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.<br>Advisor: Dr. David Kirby, Florida State University, School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 29, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.
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Jenkins, M. "The archetypal quest and Moby-Dick : Melville's "ecological, cosmic democracy"." Thesis, 1993. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20304/1/whole_Jenkins1993_thesis.pdf.

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The quest is an archetypal theme of myth and literature, one which indicates the dreams, ideas and beliefs of a society. Our myths, and our literature, contribute to the way we are today, how we are shaped, how we think, and how we act. "Intentionally, or accidentally, [they have] been a major source of the models used to perpetuate our past". Much can be learnt from the wisdoms of these stories. However, we need to be aware of the fact that the dominant recorders of society's myths, literature, and history, including the Bible, have been men who, in many instances, have been able to achieve
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Patterson, Lena. "Melville's Oriental Parsee: Reimagining Fedallah as Reader and Sign in Moby-Dick." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13069.

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Published in 1851, Moby-Dick is audaciously experimental and defiantly unique for its time. Many scholars attribute problematic aspects of the book to this authorial ambition, and for the Melville critic, the figure of Fedallah is one of those problems. This study aims to explore how the Oriental character, Fedallah, operates within the larger world of reading and interpretation in Moby-Dick. Major critics of the past have struggled to reconcile the Parsee’s shadowy essence with the materiality of the whale ship, and have interpreted this figure as an evil force, or often bluntly, a devil. How
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Chen, Jui-fen, and 陳瑞芬. "Balancing Romanticism and Calvinism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48755403317517021214.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文學系<br>102<br>Abstract Moby-Dick confronts certain philosophical issues, such as the struggle between good and evil, the existence of God and the pursuit of truth in a dualistic world. Melville challenges the lofty ambitions of mainstream Romanticism through the character of Ahab and initiates a rebellion against the Romantic spirit and Calvinism. This thesis traces the origins of Melville’s rebellion in the context of the social and political milieu of his age; especially, it compares with T. W. Herbert’s interpretation of Melville’s Calvinism to reexamine the intertwined a
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Neuburger, Hendrika. "Stepson of heaven : an analysis of Herman Melville's Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre." Thesis, 1993. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/4312/1/MM84636.pdf.

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Three of Herman Melville's works (Redburn, Moby-Dick, Pierre) are approached as related works of art--a triptych. The sustained application of images, symbols, concepts and themes links the works together. The development and intensification of themes introduced in the first panel is traced through the triptych. Colour symbolism is considered of importance, providing one of several strong connections between the independent works. The main theme, the quest for truth, which runs through the three panels and which is metaphorically presented in three separate voyages, is kept in the foreground;
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Tsai, Chi, and 蔡琦. "The Power of Being:The Multiplicity of Life in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ngv65z.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>105<br>My thesis aims to take Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick to explore Jacques Derrida’s theory to elucidate the power of Being. I take Martin Heidegger’s definition of the notion of Dasein to demonstrate the relevance of “presence,” which I use in my thesis to illustrate the multiplicity of life in Moby-Dick. I take Heidegger’s assertion on presence to construct the idea of self-presence and further reveal how the features of self-presence are distinguished from and related to those of Being. The thesis consists of four chapters. In the Introduction and Chapter 1, I il
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Paley, Samuel Gordon. "The rhetoric of the primitive savior in Cooper's The deerslayer, Melville's Moby Dick and Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and The Blithedale romance /." 2005. http://www.consuls.org/record=b2731413.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2005.<br>Thesis advisor: John A. Heitner. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-155). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Schlarb, Damien Brian. "“THE PONDERING REPOSE OF IF”: HERMAN MELVILLE’S LITERARY EXEGESIS." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/161.

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This study examines how Herman Melville’s oeuvre interacts with Old Testament (OT) wisdom literature (the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes). Using recent historical findings on the rise of religious skepticism and the erosion of Biblical authority in both Europe and the United States, I read Melville as an author steeped in the theological controversies of the eighteenth-century. Specifically, I am interested in teasing out the surprising disavowals of overt religious skepticism in Melville’s writing. By tracing the so-called Solomonic wisdom tradition throughout Melville’s oeuvre, I a
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Chen, You-ting, and 陳宥廷. "Trauma, Narrative, and Psychoanalysis: Rethinking Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a Trauma Narrative from the Perspective of Lacanian Psychoanalysis." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w239f4.

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博士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>105<br>In this thesis, I aim to reconsider Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as a trauma narrative, especially from the perspective of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic insights. I argue that both the narrative structure and the narrative strategy—two problems that concern the Melvillean scholars most regarding this novel—are intimately related to trauma. Rethinking the nature of trauma through psychoanalytic concepts such as the real and the object a, in my view, affords an alternative interpretation of the cetological chapters which do not seem to serve the purpose of th
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Rossouw, Leon Armand. "The motif of the water journey as a metaphor for philosophical enquiry in selected novels of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2174.

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Student Number : 7639580 - MA research report - Faculty of Humanities<br>This research report explores the motif of the water journey as a metaphor for philosophical enquiry in Melville and Conrad by comparing Moby-Dick with Heart of Darkness, and Billy Budd, Sailor with Lord Jim. It takes as its starting-point M.H. Abrams’s essay, “Spiritual Travelers in Western Literature”, and adapts the typology which he introduces by identifying four different kinds of fictional journey, namely, the physical, the experiential, the narrative and the hermeneutic. By concentrating on a broadly-based s
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Li, Richard, and 李延熹. "From Discovery to Self-Discovery: A Study of Four Adventure Stories: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Conrad' Heart of Darkness, Jack London's The Sea-Wolf, and Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01258229559159358081.

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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國語文學系<br>84<br>In this thesis, I shall attempt to illustrate the common features of four first-person sea and African adventure stories that mark them as belonging to what I propose to call the novel of self-discovery, as a subgenre of the novel of adventure. Their plots feature a journey into the unknown, the protagonists' confrontation with violence, and their ultimate return. If we accept the four narrators as the fictional authors, these four texts operate on two level
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Harrell, Randall W. "Moby-Dick as Proto-Modernist Prophecy." 2015. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/196.

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This project relies on two main bodies of work: the text and reception history of Moby-Dick. I argue that the novel’s prophetic insights unfold in its failure and resurrection. The reception history consists of early reviewers, biographers, and critics both hailing and discounting Moby-Dick’s literary value. The first section, “Proto-Modernist Melville: Specific Difficulty in Moby-Dick,” explores the peculiar difficulty inherent in the text of Moby-Dick, namely its divergent, evasive, and hieroglyphic properties. Chapter 2, “Reception: Nineteenth-Century Failure and Modernist Success,” chronic
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