Melville's 'Moby-Dick, or The Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism - Forms of Melville's Fiction

Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: The Forms of Melville's Fiction, language: English, abstract: 1. IntroductionThe publication of Melville's Moby-Dick or, The Whale in 1851 caused a vast range of attitudes toward the book, approaching the novel in various ways. Among those, central motives of creation and quest played an important role in interpreting the author's masterpieceas a work that sought to reach new fundamental religious insightsby challenging the Calvinist tradition of Melville's time.This paper is an attempt to show how far Melville's Moby-Dick succeeded in attacking the Calvinist principles of a theocratic and evil view of the world, constructing a literary scene of scepticism and bigotry that crosses the normal boundaries in its quest for what is beyond the universal system.

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• Authors: Kirsten Vera van Rhee, Kirsten Vera van Rhee
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2011
• EAN: 9783640983551
• ISBN: 978-3-640-98355-1
• No. of pages: 36
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 68 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V176967; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V176967
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics