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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

Creator:

Goodrum, Emily A.

Abstract:

This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis