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Christie, Lisa Karen. "That dam whale, truth, fiction and authority in King and Melville." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ66504.pdf.
Full textDerail-Imbert, Agnès. "Allures du corps dans Moby-Dick; or The Whale de Herman Melville." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081931.
Full textLevitsky, Zhana. "The Rocket and the Whale: A Critical Study of Pynchon’s Use of Melville." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078356.
Full textDove-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.
Full textDove-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.
Full textIn Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, written by Herman Melville, in 1851, the pequod meets nine other ships at sea. The meetings, supposed to be "gams", do not correspond to Melville's definition of the word. Through a detailed study of the text, i try to show that the gams are to be viewed beyond the narrative frame properly speaking, that they are very well structured, and that they represent the book in miniature. They are closely related to the problems of language and writing, which constitute the main part of my introduction. The meaning of the white whale is their main objective, and through that quest, the narrator questions whiteness, creation, transcendence, life and death, absence and nothingness. Both narrator and reader are involved in the initiatic path imposed by the gams. Through the play atmosphere that pervades the gam-chapters, the narrator topples judeo-christian values to build a world of his own in which he rehabilitates whatever is rejected by western traditions, e. G. Castaways and faeces. At the heart of the symbolic web of the gams, is the digestive process, which melville elaborates fully, and, through cross-checkings with gnosis, alchemy and digestion myths, as well as through the christ image, he attempts at abolishing any dichotomy between the human and the divine, matter and spirit etc. In his search for the transcendent, the narrator will discover his own unity and identity within the limits of human experience and of matter. If the nine meetings of the pequod are characterized by the absence of any communication, the word "gam", different in meaning, symbolizes coincidentia oppositorum and initiatic communication between opposite poles
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.
Full textHill, Francis H. ""The Whole Foundations of the Solid Globe were Suddenly Rent Asunder": Space Place and Homelessness in Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" and Melville's "Benito Cereno"." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2280.
Full textTreichel, 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.
Full textMonfort, Bruno. "Melville et ses nouvelles." Montpellier 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987MON30048.
Full textMonfort, Bruno. "Melville et ses nouvelles." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37608148k.
Full textSPAKAUSKAS, DARIJUS. "THE WHALE PROJECT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1181655993.
Full textHiggs, Nicholas Dawson. "The taphonomy of giants: whale-falls and the bioerosion of whale skeletons." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.581879.
Full textBrickley, Christopher M. "Arthur Melville and Presbyterian realism." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6424.
Full textTreichel, 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.
Full textMaksakov, Evgeny. "Whale Tank Virtual Reality." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12925.
Full textNishiura, Toru. "The description of the characters in Herman Melville's White-jacket, or the world in a man-of-war." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2005. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=589.
Full textKang, Meekyung Yoon. "Emerson and Melville: "A correspondent coloring"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288970.
Full textDunham, Jason Scott. "Gray whale prey and whale distributions in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, Canada (1996-1997)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37399.pdf.
Full textKorn, Kathrin [Verfasser], Gert Akademischer Betreuer] Melville, Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Herbers, and Nikolas [Akademischer Betreuer] [Jaspert. "Quae a rationis tramite non discordant / Kathrin Korn. Gutachter: Gert Melville ; Klaus Herbers ; Nikolas Jaspert. Betreuer: Gert Melville." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://d-nb.info/106844326X/34.
Full textKorn, Kathrin [Verfasser], Gert [Akademischer Betreuer] Melville, Klaus [Akademischer Betreuer] Herbers, and Nikolas [Akademischer Betreuer] Jaspert. "Quae a rationis tramite non discordant / Kathrin Korn. Gutachter: Gert Melville ; Klaus Herbers ; Nikolas Jaspert. Betreuer: Gert Melville." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-88160.
Full textSilva, Cibele Queiroz da. "Capture-recapture estimation of bowhead whale population size using photo-identification data /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8954.
Full textFineman, Rachel L. "An interdisciplinary examination of whalewatching in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary /." Connect to online version, 2005. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2005/131.pdf.
Full textConway, Carole Anne. "Global population structure of blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus ssp., based on nuclear genetic variation /." Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/21163.
Full textMidan, Marc. "Milton & Melville : le démon de l'allusion." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070086.
Full textMilton & Melville: The Demon of Allusion studies the significance of allusions to Milton in Typee, Moby¬Dick, The Confidence-Man and Billy-Budd, Sailor. Examining the state of research shows that allusion tends to be seen as a way to identify the meaning of an ambiguous Melvillean text with a supposedly stable Miltonic one – when in fact the allusive relationship is dynamic and reciprocal. All at once playful, satirical, impious, and erotic, Melvillean allusion is protean and thus eludes generalization. However, its very elusiveness hints at a more global significance, going beyond merely local import. Far from being just a flourish or a supplement, it is the very stuff that the text is made of. However oblique and disconcerting, it plays a crucial part in Melville's ambition to master the "great Art of Telling the Truth". Indeed, it is through allusion—in particular to Paradise Lost—that he satirizes contemporary society, explores the alienation of the self and expresses the terror of the "invisible spheres". Melville's text can be conceived of as the locus where truth is both achieved and exhibited to the reader, through a chemistry that is experimental as well as pictorial in nature. Based on a uniquely American federal model, such a process involves a complex allusive mix, the meaning of which lies not only in what the different texts bring to their host, "'but also in the destructive interaction between them. This recurrent allusive agon – the "colorless all-color" of writing – speaks to the violence of Melvillean relationships, the most powerful symbol of which is Milton's Satan
Elwen, Simon Harvey. "Environmental factors influencing the distribution of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) on the South African coast." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11212005-142925/.
Full textMüller, Wolfgang. "Recht und Literatur als friedlose Konstellation eine Arbeit zu Herman Melvilles Bartleby und Billy Budd und zu William Dean Howells' An imperative duty /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2002/219/index.html.
Full textMilstein, Tema. "Communication as environmental resource : an ethnographic exploration of endangered whale watching and human-nature relations /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6145.
Full textMurray, Brent William. "Major histocompatibility complex class II sequence variation in cetaceans : DQ[beta] and DR[beta] variation in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and DQ[beta] variation in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) /." *McMaster only, 1997.
Find full textCorner, Jason L. ""Monstrous Compounds": Genre and Value in Herman Melville." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155666766.
Full textEvans, 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.
Full textBass, Joanna. "Variations in gray whale feeding behaviour in the presence of whale-watching vessels in Clayoquot Sound, 1993-1995." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq52752.pdf.
Full textHatum, Paula Sobenko. "The song of humpback whale and the potential effects of whale-watching in the abrolhos bank, BA, Brazil." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2015. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/21081.
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Os machos de baleia jubarte, Megaptera novaeangliae, produzem uma longa e complexa sequ?ncia de sons, denominada canto, que podem ser definidas em uma estrutura hier?rquica, consistindo de subunidades e unidades, subfrases e frases, temas, canto e sess?es de canto. O canto ocorre predominantemente em ?reas de reprodu??o, no entanto, machos tamb?m cantam, por?m com menor ocorr?ncia, em ?reas de alimenta??o e durante a migra??o. A fun??o do canto ainda n?o ? bem compreendida, por?m, entre muitas hip?teses propostas, as teorias predominantes s?o de que os machos cantam para atrair as f?meas, ou para estabelecer e/ou manter domin?ncia entre machos.n. Inicialmente descritos como padr?es fixos, estudos subsequentes mostraram que o canto est? sob frequentes mudan?as ao longo de uma ou mais esta??es reprodutivas dentro de uma popula??o. Este processo tem sido referido como um exemplo de evolu??o cultural. Desde o in?cio da morat?ria ? ca?a, muitas popula??es de baleias v?m se recuperando em todo o mundo e, no Brasil, acompanhando o aumento da ocorr?ncia das baleias jubarte, o turismo de observa??o (Whale-Watching) desta esp?cie vem se tornando cada vez mais frequente no estado da Bahia. Embora permita uma utiliza??o mais sustent?vel das jubartes como um recurso natural, o r?pido crescimento desse tipo de turismo vem gerando preocupa??o sobre os poss?veis efeitos que a atividade pode causar na esp?cie, em especial nas ?reas de reprodu??o, como ? o caso do Banco dos Abrolhos, litoral sul da Bahia, principal ?rea de reprodu??o da esp?cie no oeste do Oceano Atl?ntico Sul. Todas as embarca??es, desde os menores barcos at? os grandes petroleiros, produzem ru?dos, os quais variam com as caracter?sticas das mesmas. Estudos investigando as poss?veis respostas da baleia jubarte frente ? aproxima??o de embarca??es verificaram que a dura??o de alguns elementos do canto foi alterada, podendo at? mesmo levar ? interrup??o do comportamento vocal em per?odos de tr?fego intenso ou t?m seus cantos mascarados pelos ru?dos das embarca??es, o que pode ser um problema para detec??o e localiza??o de machos cantores e comunica??o entre as baleias. As consequ?ncias dessa ruptura no sistema de comunica??o podem resultar em graves efeitos sobre o sucesso de acasalamento individual, podendo at? mesmo, em longo prazo, causar efeitos na viabilidade das popula??es. Este trabalho tem como objetivo (1) analisar a varia??o na estrutura do canto das baleias jubartes no Banco dos Abrolhos durante o per?odo de 2003-2005, descrevendo as varia??es encontradas no n?vel hier?rquico de frases, e, definir linhagens de temas ao longo deste per?odo; (2) comparar o comportamento vocal de machos de baleia jubarte na presen?a e na aus?ncia de barcos a motor associados ? atividade tur?stica na regi?o do banco dos Abrolhos; e, (3) caracterizar os ru?dos das embarca??es e identificar as caracter?sticas dos barcos que influenciam nas respostas comportamentais das baleias jubarte. Vinte e um temas foram descritos entre o per?do de 2003 e 2005. Linhagens de continuidade foram definidas para temas nos quais haviam frase padr?o definida atrav?s de teste estat?stico. Foram observadas mudan?as na estrutura espectral das unidades, a introdu??o de novas unidades, unidades de remo??o e tamb?m varia??o na estrutura geral senten?a intra e inter-individual. No cap?tulo 2, o canto foi adquirido sem a presen?a de barco a motor e durante a aproxima??o de um ?nico barco a motor, o qual se aproximava seguindo as diretrizes para as atividades de "whale watching" nesta ?rea. Os resultados mostraram que embora o n?mero de frases por tema diminuam na presen?a de barco, esta diferen?a n?o ? significativa. Similarmente, a dura??o da frase tamb?m ? mantida mesmo durante a exposi??o ao ru?do de barcos a motor, o que sugere que esta m?trica deve ser importante para a comunica??o de machos reprodutivos e deve apresentar uma forte press?o seletiva para manter sua consist?ncia. Finalmente, no terceiro cap?tulo, os resultados sugerem que os sons produzidos pelos diferentes tipos de embarca??es neste estudo (veleiro e traineiras) e os diferentes tipos de motor (motor de popa e motor interior), parecem n?o ter qualquer influ?ncia no comportamento ac?stico ou espacial das jubartes. Al?m disso, os valores encontrados para as m?tricas utilizadas (3 dB bandwidth e source level) na caracteriza??o dos ru?dos produzidos pelas diferentes embarca??es, parecem n?o apresentar nenhuma associa??o com os diferentes tipos de barcos de turismo considerados na an?lise. No entanto, 71 % (n = 7) das embarca??es apresentaram valores de 3 dB bandwidth que se sobrep?e as frequencias utilizadas no canto dos machos de baleia jubarte, sugerindo o poss?vel mascaramento das vocaliza??es das baleias. Devido ? import?ncia da comunica??o ac?stica para as baleias jubarte, faz-se necess?rio compreender melhor os processos envolvidos na evolu??o do canto da esp?cie, bem como a melhor compreens?o dos poss?veis efeitos provocados pelos ru?dos das embarca??es sobre as baleias jubartes que podem fornecer informa??es relevantes na tomada de decis?es para a conserva??o e o melhor gerenciamento do turismo de observa??o das jubartes no Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos, ambiente de extrema import?ncia para a esp?cie.
Rotaru-Varga, Adam. "Computer modelling of humpback whale foraging behaviours." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0012/MQ61489.pdf.
Full textFortune, Sarah Marie Elizabeth. "North Atlantic right whale growth and energetics." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/41981.
Full textGoold, John Charles. "Characterisation and analysis of sperm whale clicks." Thesis, Bangor University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263278.
Full textBrabyn, Mark William. "An analysis of New Zealand whale strandings." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Zoology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6894.
Full textDe, La Mare W. K. "On the management of exploited whale populations." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372772.
Full textPangerc, Tanja. "Baleen whale acoustic presence around South Georgia." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/19109/.
Full textHarris, Danielle V. "Estimating whale abundance using sparse hydrophone arrays." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3463.
Full textWolford, Donald L. "Calvin Cohn : confidence man interpreting Bernard Malamud's God's grace as a parody of Herman Melville's The confidence-man /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1253394734.
Full textSamarra, Filipa Isabel Pereira. "Functional design and use of acoustic signals produced by killer whales (Orcinus orca)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2564.
Full textFerreira, Inês Maria. "Growth and reproduction in false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens Owens, 1840)." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02122009-154715/.
Full textThe thesis is structured as three separate papers to be submitted to journals for publication, with a single reference list at the end. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-147).
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/.
Full textTitle 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).
Dively, Ronda S. "Empathy for Captain Ahab /." View online, 1989. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131012518.pdf.
Full textDunphy, Mark Raymond. "Double consciousness in Melville's middle novels /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1985. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8522800.
Full textPeck, Elka Marie. "Melville's tattoos and disguises : society, identity, audience, and appearance /." View thesis, 2002. http://wilson.ccsu.edu/theses/etd-2002-17/ThesisTitlePage.html.
Full textThesis advisor: Robert Dunne. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Literature." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-64). Also available via the World Wide Web.
Carroll, Emma Louise. "Return of the right whale: assessment of abundance, population structure and geneflow in the New Zealand southern right whale." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/11541.
Full textCampbell-Malone, Regina P. "Biomechanics of North Atlantic right whale bone : mandibular fracture as a fatal endpoint for blunt vessel-whale collision modeling." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43819.
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The North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, one of the most critically endangered whales in the world, is subject to high anthropogenic mortality. Vessel-whale collisions and entanglement in fishing gear were indicated in 27 (67.5%) of the 40 right whales necropsied between 1970 and December 2006. Of those, at least 9 deaths (22.5%) resulted from blunt contact with a vessel. To reduce the likelihood of fatal collisions, speed restrictions are being considered for vessels traversing critical habitat, although the effects of speed on collision outcomes have not been specifically evaluated from a biomechanics perspective. The ultimate goal of a larger collaborative project is to evaluate the efficacy of speed restrictions for reducing blunt collision mortality using a multi-scale finite element model. Complete, transverse fracture of the right whale mandible, an injury seen only in right whales killed by vessels, is used as a proxy for mortality in the model. Vital for that model are the material properties and biomechanical behavior of the right whale mandible. Here, the internal structure and physical properties of right whale jawbone tissue are reported. The average apparent densities, 0.4258 g/cc ±0.0970 and 1.2370 g/cc ±0.0535 for trabecular and cortical bone respectively, indicate that the bone is of relatively low density. Average ash content for trabecular bone (64.38% ±1.1330) is comparable with values from other species, indicating that low density results from a reduction of bone mass, not mineralization. Mechanical properties of right whale bone (Young's modulus of elasticity and Poisson's ratio) were determined via uniaxial compression testing.
(cont.) These data are incorporated into the finite element model simulating different loading conditions (e.g. vessel speeds) that likely lead to mandibular failure and thereby mortality from blunt vessel collisions. Model results (e.g. risk of fracture) are used to determine the effect of speed restrictions on collision outcomes.
by Regina Campbell-Malone.
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Holmes, Davey. "All’s Whale that Ends Whale: How Correctly Identifying Antarctic-Feeding Grounds of Oceania Humpbacks Could Save an Endangered Population." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/148.
Full textYoumans, Nicholas [Verfasser], Gert [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Melville, and Timothy [Gutachter] Johnson. "Virtus, Vita, Votum: : Early Minorite Conceptions of Obedience from Francis to Bonaventure / Nicholas Youmans ; Gutachter: Gert Melville, Timothy Johnson ; Betreuer: Gert Melville." Dresden : Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1135118728/34.
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