Melville

A short-story set in an alternate past, in which the empires of the 19th spread across the Solar System.

This is a brief overview of the great novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Moby Dick is definitely on this Yahoo Contributor's Top Fifteen List of books that are a must read.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe were three writers who both experienced early childhood traumas leading them to use the work of supernatural and sinners in the writing.

Melville tells two stories in which the pursuit of so-called justice ends in vast destruction and suffering of the innocent.

Discussion of Melville's use of passing characters in "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade."

A Summary of Herman Melville's short story, Bartelby, the Scrivener.

The Movie Star Junkies' latest release is a concept album for Herman Melville.

French director Jean-Pierre Melville explores a dour criminal underworld in this 1970 film. Being a thief never seemed like such awfully hard work.

Who is Bartleby and what does he mean in the text of the whole story? Here's a look into my ideas of who he is and what the story means.

Benito Cereno himself needs a stronger case for being the hero of the story, instead of the commonly accepted Babo.

This essay explores Herman Melville's sad life, especially in relation to "Bartleby, the Scrivener".

A look into the life of Herman Melville

Two Men in Manhattan is two parts nouvelle vague and one part sordid studio import.

A research paper on Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener

Melville's 'The College Colonel' is one of his Civil War poems, and it speaks clearly against the horrors of war.

As confusing as "The Big Sleep," and far more bleak in its view of human nature, "Les Doulos" is dark even for cinema noir

150 minutes of documentary-style portrayal of French cops and robbers

The majorities of nineteenth century novelists were fully aware of the Adamic myth and used the story of Adam and Eve to describe the whole American experience.

This paper explores Melville's use of metaphors and allusions and their meanings, highlighting the way that the literary devices have deepened the text's value and dimension.

This research paper asserts that women and nature are symbolically and linguistically linked in Western literature.

My changing opinions of the arguably "great American novel."

This article contains spoilers, so read the story before reading this piece. Is Melville's tale simply an argument against capital punishment, or is it much more?

Melville's fiction is fascinating through its multiple themes, both evident and underlying.

A brief biography of Herman Melville.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Melville, James. A Haiku For Hanae. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

A review of "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville which discusses his descriptions of both the Old and New World characters.

A comparison of the Melville novella and the film

An interpretation of Melville's 'Moby Dick', specifically the relationships between the characters and how their actions define who they are. Also references Emily Dickenson in a relevant context.

An inspection on how two prominent nineteenth-century American authors combined travel-narratives with romantic fiction in order to posit the reader in a similar place as the narrator(s) himself.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

Ambiguity in Melville allows readers to place themselves in the shoes of characters, weigh decisions, and assign blame for wrongdoing.

The authors Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allen Poe all demonstrate the intangibility of truth, meaning, and identity through the experiences of their characters.

The two often decided-upon meanings in Billy Budd are analyzed and picked apart, with many examples of critics' reasoning. Then, the author of the essay brings them together and ultimately discards them both.

Melville's short story takes a bleak look at the destruction Industrialization has had on the human spirit.