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'Um pensamento insone': os perigos do símbolo em Moby Dick, de Herman Melville.
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Acta Scientiarum: Language & Culture . Jan-Mar2015, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p49-56. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This study investigates the instability of the symbols in Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, and the dangers of a symbolic reading both to the crew of the Pequod and the reader of the novel. If Ishmael, on the one hand, inhabits the borders of the text and, therefore, becomes the only possible witness to the shipwreck – that is to say – the one who erases his traces of identity so that he can narrate his experience – Ahab, on the other hand, invests in the alleged concreteness of the symbols and, for this reason, submerges along with the meanings he first attributed to his quest. Together with the sinking of the Pequod, the symbols submerge to make way for an errant textuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SYMBOLISM in literature
*LITERARY characters
*INTERTEXTUALITY
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Details
- Language :
- Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 19834675
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Acta Scientiarum: Language & Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102368871
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i1.23472