“Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris.”: On the Fantastic / Supernatural / Demoniac in Melville’s Novel Moby Dick

• Published in: Literature of the Americas
• Main Author: Elvira Ph. Osipova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; Spanish; French; Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2020
• Subjects: h. melville; moby dick; or the white whale; the fantastic; captain ahab; fedallah; self-reliance; fanaticism; monomania; American literature; PS1-3576; Bourgeois; Hawthorne; Ahab; Captain Ahab; Fedallah; White whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-8-402-416; https://doaj.org/article/71c89b54d9b443d5be28c8c98df096fe

The paper addresses the theme of the fantastic in Melville’s Moby Dick, or The White Whale. Its importance is underscored in the writer’s letter to Hawthorne, where he mentioned the secret motto of the book, namely, the presence of the demoniac. It is embodied in the figure of Fedallah endowed with...