The Dichotomy of Melville’s Moby Dick: American Transcendentalism and Anti-transcendentalism

• Main Author: BAKŞİ YALCİN, Olgahan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atatürk Üniversitesi 2019
• Subjects: Herman Melville,American Transcendentalism,Anti-transcendentalism,Shakespearean tragedy,Dichotomy; Herman Melville,Amerikan Transandantalizmi,Karşı-Transandantalizm,Shakepeare Trajedisi,Karşıtlık; Ahab; Amerikan; Captain Ahab; Balina; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/atauniefd/issue/50981/627813

Counting on his own experiences as a seamanaboard whaling ships, American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891) commentson the complex human relationship with the sea and its uncertainties in his masterpiece,Moby Dick (1851). To this end, in hismaritime novel, Melville tells the story of theobsessive...