Salvation/Damnation: The Ambiguous Faust in Melville's Moby-Dick
The word “intertextual” hardly prepares us for the complex literary web within which Herman Melville suspends his metaphysical adventure story about a great whale and a man obsessed with the meaning of his own striving to capture it. Melville’s allusions are ostentatious – to the Bible, including th...
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Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.library.dal.ca/verso/article/view/3312 |