Essays about: "melville"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word melville.

  1. 1. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alexander Myrén; [2019]
    Keywords : Transcendentalism; Melville; Emerson; Ahab; Ishmael;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  3. 2. Glacial morphology and bathymetric mapping in Melville Bay, Western Greenland - Multibeam and backscatter mosaic

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper

    Author : Caroline Bringensparr; [2014]
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    Abstract : During the VEGA Expedition, in June 2013, reflectivity (backscatter) and depth data wasacquired with a multibeam echosounder from an approximately 140 km2 large area in MelvilleBay, off the coast of Western Greenland. One of the expedition objectives was to search for andmap evidences of a grounded ice sheet, which is likely to have reached the edge of the continentalshelf during the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20 000 years ago. READ MORE

  4. 3. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Juhani Saari; [2013]
    Keywords : Herman Melville; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; power relations; resistance; Michel Foucault;

    Abstract : This essay examines three of Herman Melville’s shorter fictions: Bartleby, Benito Cereno and Billy Budd. An analysis and comparison is made of the forces of power relations and resistance between the main characters in the three stories. Foucault’s theories of power are used as a basis for the analysis. READ MORE

  5. 4. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Saari Juhani; [2013]
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  6. 5. "Where the Trails All Cross" : Chronotopes, Cyclic Time and Recycled Mythology in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Mikael Lopez; [2013]
    Keywords : Amerindians; myth; chronotope; cyclic time;

    Abstract : Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale is an intricately layered novel in which the myths and folktales of the Amerindians of Guyana, as they are represented in Melville’s novel, are engaged in a dialogue with their reality. This narrative/mythical dialogue results in enactments and re-enactments of the myths and folktales, not only retelling them, but also recycling them, resulting in the Amerindians interpreting their myths and folktales nonmetaphorically. READ MORE