Sökning: "Melville"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade ordet Melville.

  1. 1. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alexander Myrén; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Transcendentalism; Melville; Emerson; Ahab; Ishmael;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Glacial morphology and bathymetric mapping in Melville Bay, Western Greenland - Multibeam and backscatter mosaic

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper

    Författare :Caroline Bringensparr; [2014]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : During the VEGA Expedition, in June 2013, reflectivity (backscatter) and depth data wasacquired with a multibeam echosounder from an approximately 140 km2 large area in MelvilleBay, off the coast of Western Greenland. One of the expedition objectives was to search for andmap evidences of a grounded ice sheet, which is likely to have reached the edge of the continentalshelf during the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20 000 years ago. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Juhani Saari; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Herman Melville; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; power relations; resistance; Michel Foucault;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Power and Resistance in Herman Melville’s Three B’s

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Saari Juhani; [2013]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Where the Trails All Cross" : Chronotopes, Cyclic Time and Recycled Mythology in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Mikael Lopez; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Amerindians; myth; chronotope; cyclic time;

    Sammanfattning : Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale is an intricately layered novel in which the myths and folktales of the Amerindians of Guyana, as they are represented in Melville’s novel, are engaged in a dialogue with their reality. This narrative/mythical dialogue results in enactments and re-enactments of the myths and folktales, not only retelling them, but also recycling them, resulting in the Amerindians interpreting their myths and folktales nonmetaphorically. LÄS MER