Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Feb. 17, 2009). PDF text: vii, 213 p. : ill. ; 7 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3326859. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

MADEIRO, Soraya Rodrigues. Os matizes entre o dito e o não-dito: mistério silencioso em Bartleby, Billy Budd e Benito Cereno, de Herman Melville. 2011. 97f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2011. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T11:48:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T13:56:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-31T13:56:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / A escrita de Melville, mesmo com o passar do tempo e apesar de tantas análises de suas obras, ainda não deixou de inquietar leitores e estudiosos. Por essa razão, para preservar o que na obra literária faz dela sobrevivente, o objetivo de nosso estudo não é de forma alguma esgotar as visões que as obras permitem; pelo contrário, pretendemos contribuir para a abertura de mais possibilidades de questionamentos e de verdades acerca do dito e do não-dito intrínseco às obras do escritor estadunidense, no que concerne ao estudo de Bartleby, o escrivão, Benito Cereno e Billy Budd. Objetivamos em nossa dissertação investigar na escrita de Herman Melville os aspectos relacionados às personagens, as quais possuem destaque no título de cada obra, mas nunca são narradoras de sua história, de modo que são incapazes de ter domínio sobre ela. Nesse sentido, as personagens mais insinuam do que realmente dizem, estão no limite entre o dito e o não-dito. / L’écriture de Melville, même après tout le temps passé et avec diverses interprétations, alaissé inquiets les lecteurs et la critique. Pour cela, afin de préserver ce qui la permet survivre, nous n’avons pas comme but épuiser les visions possibles de l’oeuvre, bien au contraire, on prétend contribuer à l’overture des possibilités et des vérités à propos du dit e du non-dit présent chez l’oeuvre de l’écrivain américain, en ce que concerne les livres Bartleby, l’écrivain, Benito Cereno et Billy Budd. Dans notre étude, le but central est penser les trois écritures de Herman Melville à partir de leurs personnages-titres, mais qui ne sont pas les narrateurs de l’histoire, de façon à perdre le pouvoir de dominer le destin de l’écriture. De telle façon, les personnages donnent plutôt des indices que des paroles concrètes et sont entre le dit et le non-dit

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I hold that Melvillean society consists of paradoxical relationships between civilization and barbarianism, evil and good, the corrupt and the natural, the individual and the collective, and the primitive and the advanced. Because these terms are arbitrary and, in the context of the novels, somewhat interchangeable, I explore Melville's thoughts as those emerge in the following groups of novels: Typee, Omoo, and White-Jacket demonstrate the paradox of Melvillean society; Redburn, Moby-Dick, and Mardi illustrate the corrupting effects of capitalism and individualism; and The Confidence-Man, Israel Potter, and Pierre depict a collapsed paradox and the disintegration of Melville's society.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This dissertation analyzes the critique of charity and philanthropy implicit in Melville’s short fiction written for periodicals between 1853 and 1856. Melville utilized narrative and tone to conceal his opposition to prevailing ideologies and manipulated narrative structures to make the reader complicit in the problematic assumptions of a market economy. Integrating close readings with critical theory, I establish that Melville was challenging the new rhetoric of philanthropy that created a moral identity for wealthy men in industrial capitalist society. Through his short fiction, Melville exposed self-serving conduct and rationalizations when they masqueraded as civic-minded responses to the needs of the community. Melville was joining a public conversation about philanthropy and civic leadership in an American society that, in its pursuit of private wealth, he believed was losing touch with the democratic and civic ideals on which the nation had been founded. Melville’s objection was not with charitable giving; rather, he objected to its use as a diversion from honest reflection on one’s responsibilities to others.

Cette thèse propose une lecture croisée des épopées traditionnelles et postcoloniales dans un cadre transculturel. Une analyse comparée de Moby Dick de Herman Melville, Omeros de Derek Walcott et la trilogie de l’Ibis d’Amitav Ghosh nous permet de cerner spécificités de l’épopée moderne postcoloniale. Celle-ci s’inscrit dans la lignée des épopées traditionnelles d’Homère, Virgile, Arioste, Camões et Milton, tout en rivalisant avec elles. Les épopées traditionnelles et modernes ont recours à des conventions qui esthétisent l’expérience collective comme les comparaisons épiques, la généalogie présentée sous forme de prophétie et la mise en abyme ekphrastique. L’épopée traditionnelle met en avant la vision d’une société unifiée grâce à des conjonctions harmonieuses entre le trope et la diégèse, des continuités généalogiques entre l’ancêtre et le descendant ainsi que des associations autoréflexives ekphrastiques entre l’histoire impériale et le texte qui la glorifie. Dans cette perspective, la spécificité de l’épopée postcoloniale semble résider dans l’articulation ambivalente de la condition postcoloniale. Ainsi, chez Melville, Walcott et Ghosh, le style héroï-comique contrebalance les comparaisons épiques opérant des transfigurations héroïques. De même, de nouvelles affiliations hybrides forgées par les personnages coexistent avec des généalogies discontinues, sans en combler toutes les lacunes créées par le déracinement et la violence coloniale. Cette vision équivoque trouve son expression la plus franche dans les séquences ekphrastiques où les textes sont confrontés au choix impossible entre commémoration de l’expérience et regard critique vis-à-vis d’elle. / This thesis offers collocational readings of traditional and postcolonial epics in transcultural frameworks. It investigates the specificities of modern postcolonial epic through a comparative analysis of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Derek Walcott’s Omeros, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. It explores how these works emulate, but also rival, the traditional epics of Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Camões, and Milton. Both traditional and postcolonial epic rely on generic conventions in order to aestheticize collective experience, setting it against the natural world (via epic similes), against history and imperial destiny (via genealogy and prophecy), and against the epic work itself (via ekphrasis). However, traditional epic emphasizes a unified worldview, characterized by harmonious conjunctions between trope and diegesis, genealogical continuities between ancestor and descendant, and self-reflexive ekphrastic associations between imperial history and the epic text commissioned to glorify it. From this perspective, the specificity of postcolonial epic can be formulated in terms of its ambivalent articulation of the postcolonial condition. In the works of Melville, Walcott, and Ghosh, tropes of heroic transfiguration are held in check by the mock-heroic, while empowering self-adopted hybrid affiliations co-exist, but cannot entirely compensate for, discontinuous genealogies marked by displacement, deracination, and colonial violence. This ambivalence finds its most powerful expression in the ekphrastic sequences where the postcolonial texts are most directly confronted with the impossible choice between commemorating experience and being critical of such commemoration.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, English Dept., 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis examines the connections between three frequently associated nineteenth-century texts, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Melville's Moby Dick, and Thoreau's Walden. It begins by reviewing the contexts normally offered for them, and then proposes an alternative one, "dialogic irony," that is based upon the complementary theoretical models of Friedrich Schlegel and Mikhail Bakhtin. After this conceptual background is outlined, the various modes of dialogic irony presented in the three works are discussed. That of Walden arises out of a close analogy between self and text: both are a series of inner voices juxtaposed with and often contradicting one another. Sartor complicates this relatively unobstructed form of selfhood through the inclusion of the Editor, whose unitary voice represents a challenge to the kind of selfhood sanctioned by Walden. Moby Dick also challenges dialogic irony, but its forms of opposition are more penetrating and various: while in Carlyle's text dialogic irony is ultimately affirmed through the figure of Teufelsdrockh, Ishmael is left stranded and displaced by the multitude of voices in his text. Melville's work therefore provides an excellent way to review and critique some of the prevailing assumptions about dialogue in contemporary criticism, a task sketched in the conclusion.