Old Antiquities And New Features Melvilles Style And Literary Influences In Moby Dick
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Author | : Lindsey McIntosh |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3668044546 |
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1st, University of Strathclyde, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: The ambition of this short literary essay is two-fold. Firstly, it aims to briefly explore some of the literary sources used to shape and create Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, Moby Dick. A multitude of literary sources could be suggested to influence Melville’s work but the principle works focused upon in this discussion are William Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth and John Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’. By drawing upon linguistic and symbolic parallels present between Moby Dick and these two works, the essay aims to show how Melville alludes to classical sources to create a refreshingly modern piece of work. The second goal of the essay is to explore in greater detail Melville’s use of language in ‘Moby Dick.’ Several critics have noted in past discussion that Moby Dick’s triumph lies embedded in its sophisticated verse, with Richard Brodhead crediting a large portion of the novel’s greatness to be owed to the author’s powerful command on the English language. With this view in mind, the essay examines some of Melville’s own linguistic accomplishments in order to decide whether “more persistently than anything else – more persistently than it is the heroic, or philosophic, or whatever – Moby-Dick is a book in love with language” (Brodhead, 1986).
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616411635 |
In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9782491251284 |
Author | : Herman Melville |
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Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Leonard Raymond Hoffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2014-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781502590695 |
A novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
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ISBN | : 9788124106563 |
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142000083 |
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780810105522 |
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
Author | : Jeff Smith |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501398962 |
In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. The issue arose from several disruptive developments: rising challenges to the traditional authority of the Bible in a society that was intensely Protestant; persistent worries over America's lack of a “national literature” and an independent cultural identity; and the slavery crisis, which provoked tremendous struggles over clashing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, even as these “parascriptures” were rising to the status of a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon. At the same time but from the opposite direction, new mass media were creating a new, industrial-scale print culture that put a premium on very non-sacred, disposable text: mass-produced “news,” dispensed immediately and in huge quantities but meant only for the day or hour. Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America identifies key features of the writings, careers and cultural politics of several prominent Americans as responses to this cluster of challenges. In their varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and to merge the timeless with the urgent present, Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Abraham Lincoln, and other religious and political leaders and men and women of letters helped define American literary culture as an ongoing quest for new “bibles,” or what Emerson called a “perpetual scripture.”