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Melville's 'Moby-Dick, or The Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism

Name: Melville's 'Moby-Dick, or The Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism
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Author: Kirsten Vera van Rhee
ISBN: 978-3-640-98369-8

Forms of Melville's Fiction

Seminar Paper, 1994

30 Pages, Grade: 2,0

Kirsten Vera van Rhee (Author)

Excerpt

1 Introduction

2 Melville and the religious milieu of his time

3 Scepticism and bigotry in Moby-Dick

4 Ishmael and the Calvinist elements
4.1 Ishmael – a Biblical name
4.2 Ishmael – an outcast
4.3 Calvinism versus scepticism
4.3.1 Father Mapple and the sermon
4.3.2 Ishmael’s response to the sermon

5 Ahab and the Calvinist elements
5.1 Ahab – a biblical name
5.2 Ahab’s cosmic fury and bigotry
5.3 Ahab and the sermon

6 Ishmael and Ahab – a comparison

7 Conclusion

8 Bibliography

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Title: Melville's 'Moby-Dick, or The Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism
Subtitle: Forms of Melville's Fiction
College: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie)
Course: The Forms of Melville's Fiction
Grade: 2,0
Author: Kirsten Vera van Rhee (Author)
Year: 1994
Pages: 30
Catalog Number: V176967
ISBN (eBook): 9783640983698
ISBN (Book): 9783640983551
File size: 473 KB
Language: English
Notes: Well researched!
Keywords: Melville, Moby-Dick, Calvinism, Religion in America

Quote paper: Kirsten Vera van Rhee (Author), 1994, Melville's 'Moby-Dick, or The Whale' - an Attack on Calvinism, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/176967

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