The Dynamic Encounter: Shakespearean Influence on Structure and Language in Moby-Dick
Description:
An understanding of the influence of Shakespeare on the structure and language of Moby-Dick is important because the plays of Shakespeare gave Melville a sudden insight into the significance of form and because his absorption of Shakespearean rhetoric enabled him to solve a serious artistic problem. In Moby-Dick Melville wished to write a work of symbolic fiction which would have both epic scope and tragic depth, but his difficulty lay in finding a structural and stylistic method which would pr…
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Date:
May 1981
Creator:
Smith, Marion L. (Marion Lynch), 1937-