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The Meanings of the White Whale
University of Toronto Quarterly, 1951“To produce a mighty book,” wrote Herman Melville, “you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”. Everybody will now grant that Moby Dick is a mighty book on a mighty theme—even though there is little agreement about the definition of that theme.
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2020
In 1991 Bradbury was able to combine his various stories of Ireland with bridges that told the tale of his Irish adventures writing the Moby Dick screenplay for John Huston in 1953-1954 to form the autobiographical novel Green Shadows, White Whale. Chapter 29 describes how Bradbury was able to merge these complex projects by revisiting the rough winter
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In 1991 Bradbury was able to combine his various stories of Ireland with bridges that told the tale of his Irish adventures writing the Moby Dick screenplay for John Huston in 1953-1954 to form the autobiographical novel Green Shadows, White Whale. Chapter 29 describes how Bradbury was able to merge these complex projects by revisiting the rough winter
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2014
In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his
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In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his
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The Whale's Whiteness: On Meaning and Meaninglessness
Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1968Philosophic meaninglessness is generally taken to be a semantic or syntactical phenomenon, at least among English-speaking philosophers. Some assert that a sentence is meaningless if it is logically impossible to point to the kinds of things the sentence ostensibly signifies or describes, or if the sentence commits a breach of logical syntax.' Others ...
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Network Meta-Analyses: The “White Whale” for Cardiovascular Specialists
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2014[No abstract available]
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2005
Towards the end of counselling with Steven, a 13 year old Aboriginal adolescent, he dreamed of being lost at sea and then found by a white whale. The whale carried him to safety; specifically, into the care of his current foster family. This ending is full of symbolism and seems to promise positive and uncomplicated outcomes.
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Towards the end of counselling with Steven, a 13 year old Aboriginal adolescent, he dreamed of being lost at sea and then found by a white whale. The whale carried him to safety; specifically, into the care of his current foster family. This ending is full of symbolism and seems to promise positive and uncomplicated outcomes.
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White Whales and Public Diplomacy:.
Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 2008I t was still early in my tour of duty as Cultural Attache in the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, when Professor Pawel J ↪ edrzejko of the University of Silesia in Katowice visited me in my office at the beginning of 2006 and proposed that the Embassy cooperate with him in his preparations for the first conference on Herman Melville in Poland. Part
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Stuart Hall and the Whiteness of the Whale
South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016However much he might be identified with cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall has imparted to students from a range of interdisciplines a means of interpretation that is rooted, at last, in metaphor. Hall's writing made imaginative use of language for reasons other than the literal conveyance of meaning, but that is not to say he was ...
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Consciousness: Philosophy’s Great White Whale
2021On the assumption that phenomenal consciousness (the what-it-is-like) is real, and ruling out Cartesian isolation from the non-mental world, we have two choices for its introduction: either it comes about in the course of the development of the non-conscious realm or it was there from the beginning.
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