Blar i forfatter Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning "Dahl, Lars Jørgen"
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One Nation Under Melville. An Analysis of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Race in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Dahl, Lars Jørgen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-11-01)Moby-Dick, or The Whale is a novel famed for its multifaceted nature, due to the myriad of both literary themes and political views that critics can explicate from it. In this thesis I will show how the novel Moby Dick, or the Whale can be interpreted in a manner that engender nation and myth building for the United States, in which the contemporary greatness of the nation makes up for the lack of ...