The essay applies René Girard's theory of the scapegoat to analyze both the structure of Melville's Moby-Dick and the way the novel handles the theme of sacred violence and revenge. After a discussion of Father Mapple’s sermon and its manipulation of Biblical discourse, the essay goes on to highlight Ishmael’s contradictory feelings concerning the relation of violence and the sacred
In Moby-Dick, tragedy is, for character, narrator, and author alike, fundamentally a problem of medi...
The origin of this study lies in discussions with Professors Philip R. Davies and Thomas L. Thompson...
This essay considers the theme of revenge in two novels: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a...
“A Bosom Friend,” Chapter 10 of Moby-Dick, concludes with a literary travesty on the Golden Rule, a ...
Moby Dick is a work strikingly rich in terms of religous symbolism and references (especially ;>Olto...
Melville presents various pagan characters and pagan gods in his sixth novel Moby Dick. Though a goo...
This paper investigates the themes and symbols of evil, pain, and suffering in the novel, Moby Dick ...
This thesis explores the major religious themes of repentance, redemption, and expiation in Moby-Dic...
In The Sermon, Chapter 9 of Moby-Dick, the hymn sung by the congregation of Whaleman’s Chapel cont...
Interpreters of the book of Jonah understand the characterisation of Jonah, and hence the meaning of...
Melville's theological contexts in his first book, Typee, hane not been duly discussed, since critic...
In the dark and problematic Pierre, the much lesser-known novel written after Moby-Dick, Melville pr...
Incidents of violence abound in most of the novels and short stories of Herman Melville, and in seve...
In Herman Melville\u27s novel Moby Dick Ishmael searches for knowledge in diverse ways; he views the...
This paper seeks to identify Melville\u27s Ahab with a super hero who wages the war of Armageddon ag...
In Moby-Dick, tragedy is, for character, narrator, and author alike, fundamentally a problem of medi...
The origin of this study lies in discussions with Professors Philip R. Davies and Thomas L. Thompson...
This essay considers the theme of revenge in two novels: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a...
“A Bosom Friend,” Chapter 10 of Moby-Dick, concludes with a literary travesty on the Golden Rule, a ...
Moby Dick is a work strikingly rich in terms of religous symbolism and references (especially ;>Olto...
Melville presents various pagan characters and pagan gods in his sixth novel Moby Dick. Though a goo...
This paper investigates the themes and symbols of evil, pain, and suffering in the novel, Moby Dick ...
This thesis explores the major religious themes of repentance, redemption, and expiation in Moby-Dic...
In The Sermon, Chapter 9 of Moby-Dick, the hymn sung by the congregation of Whaleman’s Chapel cont...
Interpreters of the book of Jonah understand the characterisation of Jonah, and hence the meaning of...
Melville's theological contexts in his first book, Typee, hane not been duly discussed, since critic...
In the dark and problematic Pierre, the much lesser-known novel written after Moby-Dick, Melville pr...
Incidents of violence abound in most of the novels and short stories of Herman Melville, and in seve...
In Herman Melville\u27s novel Moby Dick Ishmael searches for knowledge in diverse ways; he views the...
This paper seeks to identify Melville\u27s Ahab with a super hero who wages the war of Armageddon ag...
In Moby-Dick, tragedy is, for character, narrator, and author alike, fundamentally a problem of medi...
The origin of this study lies in discussions with Professors Philip R. Davies and Thomas L. Thompson...
This essay considers the theme of revenge in two novels: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a...
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