In American Romanticism,Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an encyclopedic classic of the whaling industry.Based on the theory of ecocriticism,this thesis tries to explore Ishmael’s respect and love for nature by ana...In American Romanticism,Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an encyclopedic classic of the whaling industry.Based on the theory of ecocriticism,this thesis tries to explore Ishmael’s respect and love for nature by analyzing and judging from what he says,in the novel.Ishmael’s beautiful picture of the sea and amazing description of different kinds of whales let the reader easily relate him to a person with enough intelligence to have an ecological awareness.Ishmael’s guilty feeling of their whaling adds to his important role as a nature lover.Then the paper turns to how Ishmaels’attitude to nature affect his life.Finally,the paper draws the conclusion that human beings should love and respect nature and accept the ecological law of nature,however harsh we find it.Only in this way can we coexist with nature.展开更多
Moby Dick is a retrospective novel about life at sea as well as a vast philosophical allegory of life in general.The novel begins with a famous statement"Call me Ishmael".The identity of Ishmael is analyzed,...Moby Dick is a retrospective novel about life at sea as well as a vast philosophical allegory of life in general.The novel begins with a famous statement"Call me Ishmael".The identity of Ishmael is analyzed,revealing that he functions not only as an indispensable narrator,but as an actor—a sailor on the Pequod,and psychologically a religious wonderer and a truth seeker.展开更多
Among contemporary American writers, Ishmael Reed is the major theorist and proponent of late 20th-century and early 21st-century multiculturalism in the United States of America. Since the early nineteenth century, A...Among contemporary American writers, Ishmael Reed is the major theorist and proponent of late 20th-century and early 21st-century multiculturalism in the United States of America. Since the early nineteenth century, America has embraced political myths of "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" to minimize recognition of its multiethnic and multicultural identity. Reed has effectively challenged the validity of those myths. He has consistently worked, by way of his provocative essays, anthologies, and fiction, to maximize acknowledgement of the interactive presence of multiculturalism in the literary and social evolution of America. This essay quite briefly addresses what might be designate Reed's "combative conversation" with his nation. It argues that Reed's anthologies——19 Necromancers From Now: An Anthology of Original American Writing for the 1970s(1970), Calafia; The California Poetry(1979), Multi America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace(1997), From Totem to Hip-Hip: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002(2003), and Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience--Short Fiction from Then to Now(2009)——provide subject matter as well as evidence for the endless debate regarding theory and praxis of multiculturalism in global contexts.展开更多
文摘In American Romanticism,Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an encyclopedic classic of the whaling industry.Based on the theory of ecocriticism,this thesis tries to explore Ishmael’s respect and love for nature by analyzing and judging from what he says,in the novel.Ishmael’s beautiful picture of the sea and amazing description of different kinds of whales let the reader easily relate him to a person with enough intelligence to have an ecological awareness.Ishmael’s guilty feeling of their whaling adds to his important role as a nature lover.Then the paper turns to how Ishmaels’attitude to nature affect his life.Finally,the paper draws the conclusion that human beings should love and respect nature and accept the ecological law of nature,however harsh we find it.Only in this way can we coexist with nature.
文摘Moby Dick is a retrospective novel about life at sea as well as a vast philosophical allegory of life in general.The novel begins with a famous statement"Call me Ishmael".The identity of Ishmael is analyzed,revealing that he functions not only as an indispensable narrator,but as an actor—a sailor on the Pequod,and psychologically a religious wonderer and a truth seeker.
文摘Among contemporary American writers, Ishmael Reed is the major theorist and proponent of late 20th-century and early 21st-century multiculturalism in the United States of America. Since the early nineteenth century, America has embraced political myths of "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" to minimize recognition of its multiethnic and multicultural identity. Reed has effectively challenged the validity of those myths. He has consistently worked, by way of his provocative essays, anthologies, and fiction, to maximize acknowledgement of the interactive presence of multiculturalism in the literary and social evolution of America. This essay quite briefly addresses what might be designate Reed's "combative conversation" with his nation. It argues that Reed's anthologies——19 Necromancers From Now: An Anthology of Original American Writing for the 1970s(1970), Calafia; The California Poetry(1979), Multi America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace(1997), From Totem to Hip-Hip: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002(2003), and Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience--Short Fiction from Then to Now(2009)——provide subject matter as well as evidence for the endless debate regarding theory and praxis of multiculturalism in global contexts.
