Journal article
Melville's inversion of Jonah in Moby-Dick
The Iliff review, Vol.42(1), pp.13-20
Winter 1985
Abstract
This paper shows how Melville, in Father Mapple's sermon in Moby-Dick, communicated what he regarded to be a wicked teaching. In Mapple's sermon, Melville sought to promote a wicked teaching wickedly by using a biblical text (the book of Jonah) to set forth what is perhaps the anti-biblical teaching par excellence; for both the sermon itself and the context in which Melville placed it posit a paganism which affirms that man is at the mercy of forces either alien or indifferent to him.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Melville's inversion of Jonah in Moby-Dick
- Creators
- Jay A Holstein - University of Iowa, Religious Studies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Iliff review, Vol.42(1), pp.13-20
- Publisher
- Iliff School of Theology
- ISSN
- 0019-1795
- Language
- English
- Date published season
- Winter 1985
- Date published
- 1985
- Academic Unit
- Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9983913593702771
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