Browsing by Subject "Melville"
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(2022-05-18)This dissertation reexamines the experience of human finitude in the hermeneutical works of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this, I claim that hermeneutic experience is an experience with human ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The dissertation is divided into five chapters and focuses primarily on MelvilleâÂÂs Typee, Omoo, Mardi, and Moby Dick. Chapter I introduces the idea that Melville understood Polynesian better than what critics have ...
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(2020-05-27)After decades of relative obscurity, Herman Melville’s 1876 poem, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, has been gaining much more critical attention in the last twenty years as a work of great literary significance. ...