Le spleen du maître d’école : Ismaël et le savoir dans Moby-Dick
This paper focuses on the highly ambivalent relation that Ishmael-as the narrator of the hunt -maintains with knowledge. This relation seems to be structured around two specific functions : knowledge as an implement of power and as a means of protection or resistance. It will eventually be seen how...
| Published in: | Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | French |
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PERSEE
1997
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| Online Access: | http://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_71_1_1673 https://doi.org/10.3406/rfea.1997.1673 |
| Summary: | This paper focuses on the highly ambivalent relation that Ishmael-as the narrator of the hunt -maintains with knowledge. This relation seems to be structured around two specific functions : knowledge as an implement of power and as a means of protection or resistance. It will eventually be seen how Ishmael's school-teacher's strategy proves powerless in front of his own Ahabian facet and the fascination for the white whale it entails. |
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