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Schwartz, Michael Adam.

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Shattering laughter: Apocalypse and body in Herman Melville's "Typee".

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Shattering laughter: Apocalypse and body in Herman Melville's "Typee"./
作者:	Schwartz, Michael Adam.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2007,
面頁冊數:	202 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International69-01A.
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3258022
ISBN:	9781109959789

Shattering laughter: Apocalypse and body in Herman Melville's "Typee".
Schwartz, Michael Adam.

Shattering laughter: Apocalypse and body in Herman Melville's "Typee". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2007 - 202 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2007.

The purpose of my study is to consider primarily from a psychoanalytical perspective Melville's employment in Typee of the trope of the apocalypse. In many of his works, Melville-by consciously or unconsciously employing world-shatteringly-apocalyptic language and imagery-acts to, and re-enacts, the terror, revulsion, and shame which western culture associates with materiality, mortality, gender, and sexuality. Yet Typee, while driven in no small degree by such western-apocalyptic fears of monstrous Body, attempts a different project-to realize the carnivalesque possibility of what Julia Kristeva terms a "laughing apocalypse"-and its success in that endeavor is something which Melville's later work, even Moby-Dick, will be able to recapture only to an ever-lessening degree. In Typee , Melville demonstrates not only the ability to resist the threatening sense of judgment traditionally associated with western apocalypse, but also, more importantly, the capacity to subvert the culture-defining power of the myth by attempting to redefine it as a judgment-free, dissolutive, amorphous, and carnivalesque embrace of Body and Other. While Typee is Melville's most fully-carnivalesque work, it is marked by indecision and a wildly-oscillating tension between western- and laughing-apocalyptic confrontations with Body and Other. By focusing particularly on violently-apocalyptic or psychologically-transitional moments in Typee I attempt to navigate this tension, my goal an understanding of the extent to which Typee's narrator, Tommo, is able to realize the possibilities of laughing apocalypse. Briefly: we witness in Tommo a willingness to leap, to dare, to choose, to act-and to surrender to the unknown immediacy of that which is outside Self. Despite the persistence western-apocalyptic fears and anxieties, Tommo experiences an "elasticity of mind" which results in a significant psychological assimilation into a carnivalesque culture. While Typee's conclusion signals a recoil from carnivalesque possibility and a return to the Body-vilifying culture of western apocalypse, it retains an air of hope which persists-even as it fades-in much of post-Typee Melville.

ISBN: 9781109959789Subjects--Topical Terms:

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