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Moby Dick
Ishmael joined the crew of the whaling ship Pequod expecting a simple whaling voyage.Little did he know that the captain of the ship is thirsty for revenge against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for his missing leg.As the crew sails the ocean, Captain Ahab searches unceasingly for Moby Dick, ignoring warnings and prophecies of doom.
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Burt Dow, deep-water man : a tale of the sea in the classic tradition
Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.
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A Psychoanalytical Study of the Gothic Marine Locales in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
This research uncovers the Gothic elements interwoven with the Sublime in the maritime context of Herman Melville's \"Moby Dick\". Using Freud's psychoanalytical frameworks, the study examines the novel's sublime aspects and the psychological depths they signify. It draws on Lacan's and Burke's theories on the conscious and unconscious mind and the contrast between the beautiful and the sublime. These elements suggest deeper insights into Melville's psyche, with characters like Ishmael reflecting his narrative. The conclusion posits \"Moby Dick\" as an intricate interlacing of Gothic and sea-faring motifs that penetrate the human psyche, set against the ocean's expanse. The narrative aboard the Pequod encapsulates the collective human psyche, presenting a tableau of collective yearnings, fears, and fixations. The enigmatic Moby Dick stands as a symbol of nature's grandeur and humanity's relentless pursuit of the unfathomable, with otherworldly occurrences enhancing the story's spectral quality. The story's heart lies in the psychological journey, mainly through Ahab's quixotic quest for the whale, a metaphor for the human penchant for chasing the unreachable. The narrative is laden with symbolism, with the whale as the centerpiece of nature's wonder and the human quest for meaning. The plot navigates through moral ambiguities and deceit, providing depth to its characters. Themes of isolation and desolation are woven into the dangerous yet mesmerizing whaling backdrop, rendering a narrative rich in complexity and allure.
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The Hive and the Pod: Ecocritical Subversions in Laline Paull’s Two Interspecies Narratives
This ecocritical analysis of Laline Paull’s The Bees (2014) and Pod (2022) employs Greg Garrard’s framework of environmental dualisms and Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence (Nixon, 2011) to interrogate how nonhuman narrators expose the entangled ecological, social, and spiritual crises of the Anthropocene. Through close reading and interdisciplinary synthesis, the study demonstrates how Paull’s fiction reframes industrial agriculture and marine exploitation as systemic failures rooted in anthropocentric hierarchies. In The Bees, the queen monopolizes the reproductive rights of the bees in the hive; the queen’s act, critiques patriarchal control over labor and ecology, paralleling ecofeminist critiques of nature’s commodification. In Pod, the spinner dolphin Ea navigates oceans ravaged by seismic blasting (termed the Thunder) and plastic waste, her echolocation disrupted by anthropogenic acoustic smog (Duarte et al., 2021). The Tursiops dolphins’ exploitation of remoras and reliance on pufferfish toxins mirror capitalism’s extractive logic, their eventual collapse underscoring the fragility of such systems. Paull’s narrative strategies reject anthropomorphic simplification. By employing biomimicry, such as scent-driven communication in The Bees and echolocation syntax in Pod, she centers nonhuman cognition, fostering empathy without erasing alterity. Rituals like the Waggle Dance and humpback whale songs reclaim spiritual ecology, positioning nonhumans as custodians of planetary memory. Ultimately, the novels advocate interspecies solidarity, urging readers to heed Flora’s realization of hive-world symbiosis (Paull, 2014) and Ea’s declaration of collective tidal agency (Paull, 2022). Paull’s work transcends climate fatalism, offering a radical reimagining of environmental justice through collective, multispecies survival.
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As big as a whale
Doc McStuffins puts her toy whale Lula into the water, where she begins to grow in size.
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Mortal Combats from Classics to Contemporary: Archetypes in the Matrix of Melville's Nautical Fictional Combats
When the pandemic-stricken world battles with the invisible and invincible enemy globally, the metaphoric battles have been waged in the spacio-temporal literary world from time immemorial. The archetypal battles between the hunter and the game permeated the literary classics and got evolved to fit in well with the socio-political life of human beings, appropriate to cultural variations. The mythical quest to reclaim the lost Paradise after defeating the lethal monsters underlines all the literary works which are centered on the archetype of hunter. When the physical world is shrouded with the mortal fear of the pandemic, the literary world has something to offer for the humanity to tide over the disillusionment and catastrophe resulted by the COVID 19 pandemic. American literature abounds in immortal literary characters who have leapt out of the pages and inspired the readers with indomitable spirit and an indifference in facing failure. Herman Melville's epoch-making novel Moby Dick accelerated the momentum of nautical fiction globally and reiterated the existence of the mortal combat with an invincible enemy to bring order and morale in one's life. This paper titled 'Mortal Combats from Classics to Contemporary: Archetypes in the Matrix of Melville's Fictional Nautical Combats' attempts to unearth the archetypal battle for survival from classical nautical works to the evolutionary encroachment of the same in the physical life of mankind.
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The snail and the whale
Wanting to sail beyond its rock, a tiny snail hitches a ride on a big humpback whale and then is able to help the whale when it gets stuck in the sand.
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The problem of empty names and Russellian Plenitude
'Ahab is a whaler' and 'Holmes is a whaler' express different propositions, even though neither 'Ahab' nor 'Holmes' has a referent. This seems to constitute a theoretical puzzle for the Russellian view of propositions. In this paper, I develop a variant of the Russellian view, Plenitudinous Russellianism. I claim that 'Ahab is a whaler' and 'Holmes is a whaler' express distinct gappy propositions. I discuss key metaphysical and semantic differences between Plenitudinous Russellianism and Traditional Russellianism and respond to objections that stem from those differences.
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