The dichotomy of melville’s Moby Dick: American transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism

• Main Author: Yalçın, Olgahan Bakşi
• Other Authors: Eğitim Fakültesi, orcid:0000-0002-5527-9200
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atatürk Üniversitesi 2019
• Subjects: Herman Melville; American Transcendentalism; Antitranscendentalism; Shakespearean Tragedy; Dichotomy; Amerikan Transandantalizmi; Karşı-Transandantalizm; Shakepeare Trajedisi; Karşıtlık; Ahab; Amerikan; Balina; Captain Ahab; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12445/2176

Counting on his own experiences as a seaman aboard whaling ships, American novelist Herman Melville (1819─1891) comments on the complex human relationship with the sea and its uncertainties in his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851). To this end, in his maritime novel, Melville tells the story of the obse...