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Herman Melville as revealed in his Civil War poems, Battle-pieces and Aspects of the WarMathieu, Bertrand January 1964 (has links)
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Structure and imagery in Melville's short stories of the 1850's.Raff, Heather Ann. January 1968 (has links)
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Air and brass : faith, philosophy, and events in the first six novels of Herman MelvilleFranks, Jesse Gibson January 1969 (has links)
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Quête, communication et connaissance étude des "gams" dans "Moby-Dick" or "The Whale" de Herman Melville.Dove-Rumé, Janine, January 1987 (has links)
Th.--Litt. am.--Paris 8, 1986.
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The theme of violence in the later fiction of Herman MelvilleMcKeown, Thomas Wilson January 1970 (has links)
Incidents of violence abound in most of the novels and short stories of Herman Melville, and in several of them, especially Billy Budd, the protagonist is characterized in terms of his attitude towards violence. The central contention
of my thesis is that in the development of Melville's fiction from Moby-Dick to Billy Budd the thematic role of violence changes from that of a destructive to a more redemptive
force. This change parallels another change that takes place in his fiction, from a focus on the individual who is destroyed by his commitment to violence, to the society which is temporarily purged of evil through the violent
act of an individual.
In my first two chapters I discuss Moby-Dick and Pierre as representing Melville's early attitude to violence. In Moby-Dick violence is associated primarily with Ahab, whose characterization takes up about half of the novel. In Pierre violence becomes a more central motif, simply because Pierre is the only major character in the novel, and consequently his involvement with violence reflects the focus of the novel as a whole. Both of these novels employ the theme of violence mainly to dramatize the separation of the self from society.
In chapters three and four I discuss the ways in which "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno" prefigure the
role of violence in Billy Budd. The fact that even, the timid lawyer is capable of feeling the faint stirrings of anger within
him anticipates the concern of Billy Budd with the
universality of human emotion, and its important role in helping to redeem an excessively rationalistic society. “Benito Cereno" also looks toward Billy Budd, in that Cereno's magnanimous concern for Delano's safety, which gives him the strength to break away from Babo's influence and jump into the boat, prefigures Billy's magnaminity at his execution.
In my final chapter I discuss the way in which the destructive violence and a focus on the fate of the individual in Moby-Dick has been replaced by the socially redemptive violence and a focus on the fate of society in Billy Budd. Melville's development in this respect may be measured by his transformation of murder into a socially desirable act. Billy destroys evil and is in turn destroyed by the society which he protects, yet his influence lives in the hearts of the sailors who have known him. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Structure and imagery in Melville's short stories of the 1850's.Raff, Heather Ann. January 1968 (has links)
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Melville's aesthetic strategiesRaff, Heather Ann. January 1980 (has links)
The exploration and discontinuity of Melville's early life are reflected in his writing career. Before settling into silent conventionality, he wrote remarkably diverse prose. His aesthetics were individualistic: the page was an arena in which to deploy experimental strategies. / The novels from Typee to Moby-Dick can be regarded as action of mind as it explores ways of seeing and describing reality. But these experiments proved that vision is inevitably guided by the well-stocked mind and that Nature is an everchanging subjective construct. / In Pierre, The Piazza Tales, and The Confidence-Man--the fiction that immediately followed these discoveries--the action is externalized. Melville now explores the artist's use of definite forms rather than his mental positings. Paradoxically, this new aesthetic came to serve his final purpose: of disengagement that was subsequently fully manifested in the silence that followed.
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Melville's aesthetic strategiesRaff, Heather Ann. January 1980 (has links)
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Bartleby the scrivener : a critical analysisTannenbaum Glouberman, Susan. January 1980 (has links)
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The narrator as gossip : Melville's quarrel with novelistic realism /Greenfield, Bruce January 1977 (has links)
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