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Treichel, 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 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 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 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 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 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 textSchlarb, 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.
Evans, 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 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
Recker, Astrid. ""But truth is ever incoherent ..." : dis/continuity in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" /." Heidelberg : Universitäsverlag C. Winter, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783825355180.
Full textHellén, Anna. "How to construct a temple : Melville and the architecture of romanticism /." Göteborg : Acta Univ. Gothoburgensis, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017724646&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textChristodoulou, Constantine. "A critical dictionary of Herman Melville's Polynesian terms." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4823.
Full textHughes, T. "Sea-room : the early Pacific writing of Herman Melville." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604755.
Full textPhillips, Jerry. "Herman Melville, and the politics and poetics of adventure." Thesis, University of Essex, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279296.
Full textGambarotto, Bruno. "Modernidade e mistificação em Moby-Dick, de Herman Melville." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-14032013-104328/.
Full textThrough an analytical and interpretative study of Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick I intend to formulate and clarify the historical turning point of the American novel, specifically what is deemed the most radical effort of an American writer to bring a comprehensive study on society into novelistic form. In order to accomplish that, I reconsider some of the features of Moby-Dick that strongly appealed to the times. First the ideological crisis of the 1840s, when the equalitarian revolutionary ideals of the Independence were finally confronted by the consequences of the U.S. being fully compromised to the Industrial Revolution and the capitalistic worldwide system. This is a central issue in Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both novels where some major features of Moby-Dick are anticipated and firstly tested. Second, I scrutinize the concept of frontier -- a national identity issue that can be traced back to the Puritan 17th century errand into the wilderness that is strongly attached in the age of Melville to the ideological making of American imperialism. Besides, it also has had a major role in the crystallization of culturally specific perspectives on property and the establishment of social classes. Finally, I reconsider the notions of technique and labor, directly implied in the whaling industry and in a more general way in the marching of American civilization towards the West, which has had a strong impact on the understanding of the social significance of free labor and its coexistence with slavery. With those things under consideration, and through the surmises of the Critical Theory and the Brazilian tradition of social and literary criticism as well, it is my aim to shed light on some esthetical features of the novel, particularly on the tragic structure (as opposed to the epic) that defines the career of Pequods Captain Ahab and his obsessive chasing of Moby Dick, and the constitution of a self-reflexive narrator, the survivor Ishmael, who recalls the past of the catastrophe in order to attack the social reproduction of its conditions in the present.
Harrison, Colin. "Heretical necessity : Herman Melville and the fictions of charity." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11314/.
Full textHänssgen, Eva. "Herman Melvilles 'Moby-Dick' und das antike Epos /." Tübingen : G. Narr, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390763590.
Full textStedall, Ellie. "Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and transatlantic sea literature, 1797-1924." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648378.
Full textUrbas, Joseph. "La contingence dans les romans de maturité de Herman Melville." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070033.
Full textThe aims of this study is to assert the key role of the idea of contingency in the late novels of Herman Melville through an analysis of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and the confidence-man. A brief reading of the posthumous work Billy shows the continuing importance of this theme in Melville's thought
GENIN, ISABELLE. "Les trois traductions francaises de moby-dick de herman melville." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030059.
Full textThis dissertation is a comparative study of the three french translations of moby-dick by melville: that by jean giono, lucien jacques and joan smith (1941), that by armel guerne (1954), and that by henriette guex-rolle (1970). The study of many examples is carried out from the point of view of both the english-speaking and the french-speaking reader. The aim is to show the general tendency of each text, to point out some processes significantly changing the experience of the reader of the translation and to assess the passages where translating becomes creative writing in its own way. The style of the novel makes the translator's task challenging as he has to find a way out of numerous conflicting priorities. The abundance of the language and its apparent disorder enable melville to transcend its limitations and express what is beyond the power of words. The main four lines of comparison are four aspects of that attempt, but each raises specific problems for the translator. 1) voices: the quakers, the uneducated people, the exotic characters and the sailors. 2) words for what is beyond words: negative affixes and double negative forms which blur the frontier between a word and its contrary. 3) adjectives: reflecting the narrator's voice piling up words and connotations. 4) creating images and music: through metaphors, repetitions of words and sounds, word order and sentence patterns
Kaplan, Richard Edward. "Dostoevsky, Melville and the conventions of the novel fictional alliances /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 1993. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=746557821&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textBanta, Bonnie L. "Melville and Dostoevsky a comparision [sic] of their writings /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2000. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Full textSource: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves I-V. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106).
Dove-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 textMaufort, Marc. "Visions of the American experience: the O'Neill-Melville connection." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213576.
Full textOtt, Sara. "Paradox and philosophical anticipation in Melville’s Moby-Dick." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/385.
Full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Includes bibliographic references (leaves 32-35)
De, Paul Lewis Stephen. "Self, sovereignty, and culture in the major fiction of Herman Melville." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4907.
Full textWing, Jennifer Mary. "Resisting the Vortex: Abjection in the Early Works of Herman Melville." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04192008-191516/.
Full textTitle from file title page. Robert Sattelmeyer, committee chair; Janet Gabler-Hover, Calvin Thomas, committee members. Electronic text (215 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 10, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215).
Faustino, Elinore. "Toward An Ethic of Failure in Three Novels by Herman Melville." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/144.
Full textJohnson, Bradley A. "The character of theology : Herman Melville and the masquerade of faith." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2463/.
Full textTerzis, Timothy R. (Timothy Randolph). "Melville's Vision of Society : A Study of the Paradoxical Interrelations in Melville's Major Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278456/.
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 textRecker, Astrid. ""But truth is ever incoherent ..." dis/continuity in Herman Melvillesś Moby-Dick." Heidelberg Winter, 2007. http://d-nb.info/989735265/04.
Full textImbert, Michel. "L'esprit des échanges : les signes économiques et la foi dans l'oeuvre d'Herman Melville." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070008.
Full textMelville's narratives run counter to the gospel of wealth as they highlight a basic experience of dispossession. Whereas the young nation invests itself witha messianic mission, melville discloses the deviations from "manifest destiny" and the appropriation of the religious legacy by would be prophets. He unmasks posessive individualism under the guise of faith and confidence. And yet, paradoxically enough, the debased world of the market place might be the seene of an ambiguous revelation in spite of the religious masquerade in the sense that the christic experience of deprivation seems to be re-enacted by the social players against their will. But, in the last resort, it turns out to be impossible to distinguish genuine faith from counterfeiting
Jabalpurwala, Inez. "Reading that brow : interpretive strategies and communities in Melville's Moby-dick." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60042.
Full textMcGettigan, Katherine Ellen. "The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/.
Full textCruz, Susana Maria dos Santos R. da. "(Des)encontros com Adão : Alusões Bíblicas em Billy Budd, Sailor de Herman Melville." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/53814.
Full textCruz, Susana Maria dos Santos R. da. "(Des)encontros com Adão : Alusões Bíblicas em Billy Budd, Sailor de Herman Melville." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1996. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000046188.
Full textMarsoin, Edouard. ""Capabilities of enjoyment" : plaisirs et jouissance dans l'oeuvre en prose de Herman Melville." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC168.
Full textThis thesis counters a commonly held critical view according to which Melville is a darkand disembodied author; in contrast, it aims to highlight the possibilities, potentialities andcapabilities of enjoyment in his fiction. Its object is to study the representations andproblematizations of pleasure as an affect which signals the encounter of a feeling body with matter.Such an encounter is enmeshed in cultural forms and codes that determine pleasure’s conditions ofpossibility and whose traces are disseminated through the literary text. Melville’s fiction is thereforematerialistic and affective. In melvillean fictional worlds, pleasure and joy enter into dynamic,contrasting relationships with pain and death, which can give rise to complex forms ofenjoyment/jouissance. Melville’s prose work consequently produces a discourse that interrogates,troubles or celebrates the possibility of pleasure and pleasures from aesthetic, epistemological,ethical, dietetical, gendered, political, and economic viewpoints. A textual, contextual andintertextual approach, mobilising analytical tools drawn from philosophy, psychoanalysis, andliterary theory, informs my study of the use of pleasurable matters (food, alcohol, tobacco) inMelville’s poetics (chapter 1), the links between feeling and thinking in what I call an episteme ofenjoyment (chapter 2), the ethical and dietetical systems elaborated by fictional subjects to regulatetheir pleasures (chapter 3), and the collective (social, political and economic) dimensions ofavailable pleasures (chapter 4)
Augustyniak, Virginie. "Les travestissements de la foi dans the confidence-man : his Masquerade d'Herman Melville." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070072.
Full textThe Confidence-Man; His Masquerade springs from a realization that the sacred has withdrawn from the American capitalist society, where economic matters prevail over ethical issues, which, in turn, results in the collapse of ail values - for without a gold standard ail currencies become funny money. Some general and basic contingency and ambiguity affecting form, identity, language and aesthetics presently ensue. Indeed, to believe becomes not only a very uncertain wager, but one that, at a pinch, cannot in any way be laid. Faith is faced with the possibility of the godhead being a deceiving Trickster, and with the idea that truth is entirely subjective and relative. Trust is likewise roughly put to the test by a widespread hypocrisy and the undiminishing number of swindlers and liars traipsing aboard the Fidèle. Scepticism and misanthropy are the usual and natural protecting devices men contrive. However, the "will to believe" (W. James) abides. No matter how tempting isolation and indifference may be, commitment is a necessity no human being can eschew. One "must wager. It is not optional" (Pascal). Thus, confidence returns when and where it was least expected. In the meantime, its essential nature has changed. "Something further may follow of this Masquerade. " Melville's autodafé is encapsulated in this new confidence that is intrinsically blended with such humanistic values as friendship and "geniality. "
Saari, Juhani. "Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91131.
Full textKanzler, Katja. "Architecture, writing, and vulnerable signification in Hermann Melville's "I and My Chimney"." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-162997.
Full textMcGlamery, Thomas Dean. "Writing one's age : protest and the body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textSulic, Dijana. "Deux visages du mal : Hermann Melville et Albert Camus." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040174.
Full textThis study proposes to demonstrate, in light of the theme of evil, a correspondence between Herman Melville and Albert Camus. Both were obsessed by the problem of evil, and each found a way of expressing that obsession. In spite of their many differences, the comparison between the two is not only possible, but invited by the many parallels in their life and work. This entails a comparative analysis on several levels: formal, literary and philosophical. There follows a comparison of selected works from the authors respective oeuvres. The theme of evil is shown to be present in the early works (Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White jacket, L'Envers et l'endroit, and Noces). An analysis of evil in Moby Dick and La Peste is the main focus of the study. The subject is then examined as it is manifested in the characters of Achab and Caligula, and pursued in the correspondences between Bartelby, L'Étranger and Billy Budd. The final section is devoted to the confidence man and la chute, followed by a conclusion asserting the omnipresence of evil in both authors' work
Leroux, Jean-François. "Modernity after holiness: Time and its other in Herman Melville and Victor-Levy Beaulieu." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9937.
Full textAmaral, Arminda João de Seabra do. "Visões da história e da arte em Herman Melville : Timoleon : uma metáfora da América." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/13018.
Full textMARCAIS, ARNAUD DOMINIQUE. "Race, couleur, ecriture : le blanc et le noir dans l'oeuvre romanesque de herman melville." Paris 8, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA080315.
Full textBlack and white constitute one of the dominant structures of herman melville's imagination. My dissertation analyses the complex relationship between black and white in the novels of herman melville (1819-1891), beginning with its racial implications to finally pointing to the links established by melville himself between race, color and writing. From his first semi-autobiographical novels to his later works, the presentation of "otherness" is inseparable from preoccupations on the significance of color, on the problem of communication, on language and writing. There is in moby-dick; or, the whale a fusion of all the earlier themes. Three chapters out of six in our dissertation focus on this novel. The reversal of values traditionally associated with black and white in puritan culture and the questioning of color as a significant mark of racial identity become inseparable from the questioning of language and writing. Melville, in search of a new language capable of abolishing polarities, turns to the techniques of the occult: astrology, numerology and alchemy; he plays on the shape and sound of letters, on the use of capitals and italics, on numbers and colors to reveal the ever changing and unreliable character of language. Color and writing are masks which both hide and disclose the dual nature of the universe. Our mythocritical approach of the melvillean text inspired by the works of gaston bachelard, mircea eliade and gilbert durand and influenced by the research and analysis of professor viola sachs of paris viii university has enabled us to reconcile the personal, cultural and mythical dimensions of an ever dynamic and challenging work
Marcais, Dominique. "Race, couleur, écriture le blanc et le noir dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Herman Melville /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37615676p.
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