Search results for "Herman Melville"
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“Moby-Dick”
2008
« The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne »
2016
“The Letters of Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne”
2016
Žana Kalvina idejas Dž. Banjana, H. Melvila un M. Robinsones darbos
2017
Šis darbs analizē Džona Banjana pieeju kalvinismam literārajā darbā Svētceļnieka Taka, Hermana Melvila pieeju kalvinismam literārajā darbā Bilijs Bads (Billy Budd, Sailor), kā arī Merilinas Robinsones pieeju kalvinismam romānā Gileāda. Darba mērķis ir analizēt līdzīgās un atšķirīgās iezīmes Dž. Banjana, H. Melvila un M. Robinsones pieejai kalvinismam. Pirmkārt, literārie darbi tiek uzmanīgi izlasīti. Otrkārt, Dž. Banjana, H. Melvila un M. Robinsones pieeja kalvinismam tiek analizēta, izmantojot teksta analīzi. Treškārt, tiek veikts secinājums, ka kalvinisma izpratne ir mainījusies. Atslēgvārdi: Kalvinisms, Džons Banjans, Svētceļnieka Taka, Hermans Melvils, Bilijs Bads, Merilina Robinsone, G…
Compte rendu de "Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume I, 1819-1851" de Hershel Parker. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 74 (octobre 1997)
1997
Compte rendu
Matt Kish’s “Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated”: A Multimodal Approach
2016
Abstract The purpose of this essay is to address the multimodal nature of Matt Kish’s project Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated, where Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece is set as paratext. Particular focus is set on the portrayals of Captain Achab, specifically “Page 153”, “Page 465” and “Page 469”. The basic theoretical framework has been offered by Alice Gibbons’ theorization of multimodal cognitive poetics and Sigrid Norris’ systematization of multimodal (inter)action. Useful insight has been lent by Sharon Cameron’s work on allegories of the body in Melville’s writing. The given analysis aims to pinpoint the elements of innovation in Kish’s work with respect to the canonical formal …
“Moby-Dick and the Spirit of Revolution”
1994
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“The Deception of Reality: Blackening the Woman in Melville’s Mardi”
1995
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Construction of Whiteness and Blackness in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno
2020
Rather than resist slavery directly, the narrative world of Benito Cereno disperses the rejection of tyranny through the intricate construction of subject-object relations, the situational context, Benito Cereno’s stifled, semi-articulated statements, the imagery of the narrative and its complex narrative structure. Through silences, multiple viewpoints, innuendos, refusal to solve certain issues definitely while being explicit about this indeterminacy, Melville’s narrative not only inscribes itself in the Romantic questioning of historiography, but also gestures towards postmodernist inconclusiveness and the writerly text in which the reader is invited to be its co-author who fills out the…
“An American Quest for Truth in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Herman Melville’s Mardi: and A Voyage Thither”
2012
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