Essays about: "Herman Melville"
Found 5 essays containing the words Herman Melville.
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1. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)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
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2. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : 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
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3. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. An Evolutionary Analysis of Moby Dick: The Pequod's Search for Brotherhood, Status, and Mystery
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : Applying contemporary ideas regarding the role literature may have had in human evolutionary history to literary analysis, using Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a case study. The paper focuses on the function of male bonding in the text, the ways in which the setting is defined by humanity's evolutionary past, and the artistic function of the hunt, as it is described in the text. READ MORE
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5. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : 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. READ MORE