Sökning: "Moby Dick"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Moby Dick.

  1. 1. Kannibalen, en västerländsk monsterskapelse? -En studie av kannibalen som litterär och kolonial gestalt

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Jacob Lundberg; [2021]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : Uppsatsen undersöker kannibalen som en kolonial gestalt inom litteratur från tidigmodern tid till senmodern tid och vad dess gestaltning berättar om samtida idéströmningar och värderingar. Undersökningen baseras på tre skönlitterära verk. Dessa verk är: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moby Dick (1851) och The Silence of The Lambs (1988). LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Peqoud

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

    Författare :Jonas Collberg; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Moby Dick; Herman Menville; interpretation; character;

    Sammanfattning : Pequod - is an exploration of the translation problem. And an idea to examine the myth of"why the book is always better than the movie."The work began by choosing a character to interpret. My choice was the characteristicCaptain Ahab and his mono manic quest for revenge. LÄS MER

  5. 4. An Evolutionary Analysis of Moby Dick: The Pequod's Search for Brotherhood, Status, and Mystery

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Författare :Peter Steadman; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Evolution; Herman Melville; literary Darwinism; Moby Dick; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Applying contemporary ideas regarding the role literature may have had in human evolutionary history to literary analysis, using Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a case study. The paper focuses on the function of male bonding in the text, the ways in which the setting is defined by humanity's evolutionary past, and the artistic function of the hunt, as it is described in the text. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sten Mittermaier; [2008]
    Nyckelord :Herman Melville Albert Camus Moby Dick futility absurdism human condition;

    Sammanfattning : In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. LÄS MER