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- Title
THE ILLUMINATION OF DARKNESS: AFFINITIES BETWEEN MOBY-DICK AND INVISIBLE MAN.
- Authors
Schultz, Elizabeth A.
- Abstract
Compares the themes and motives in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man." Focus of both novels centers on the realities of American life and follows the tradition of a picaresque bildungsroman; Incorporation of a diversity of rhetorical and literary forms into the texts of both novels; Perceptions of Melville and Ellison on the multiplicity and the mutability of reality is the perception of ambiguity; Synopses of both novels.
- Subjects
COMPARATIVE studies; FICTION; STORY plots; BILDUNGSROMANS; PICARESQUE literature; REALITY in literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
CLA Journal, 1988, Vol 32, Issue 2, p170
- ISSN
0007-8549
- Publication type
Article