Transactions en eaux troubles : résurgences de la voix shakespearienne dans Moby-Dick

This article explores the way Herman Melville appropriates William Shakespeare’s work in Moby-Dick. Its argument is that by defamiliarising some of Shakespeare’s lines—a corpus that was both alien and familiar to nineteenth-century writers— Melville turns them into his own idiom. This resurgence of...

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Main Author: Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2009-02-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/299