moby-dick is a novelnovel
the novel is a medium of literature. commonly, a novel will take place in an urban, social environment and have an omniscient perspective and cut between various characters acting at the same t... written by herman melvillemelville
melville was an american writer of novels like moby-dick and short stories like "bartleby."
following ishmael, who, along with harpooner queequeg, decides to join the pequod on a whaling expedition. but the ship is led by captain ahab, whose only goal is to find and kill moby-dick, the whale that bit him years ago.
To my mind, the novel is significant not only for combining the forms of epic poemepic poem
an epic poem is a narrative poem of great length about extraordinary or larger-than-life characters. ezra pound said it was a poem including history. In a preface to paradise lost, c.s. lew... and essayessay
The essay is a genre in literature developed by montaigne, himself inspired by seneca and plutarch, as well as francis bacon.
david solway says that writing an essay is a r... but also for its deep symbolism and spiritual disposition.
moby-dick is greatly inspired by paradise lostparadise lost
paradise lost is an epic poem in english by john milton. suffused in allusions to bible and christian's myth and thinking, the poem covers in 12 books,1 the story of satan's fal... and the language of shakespeareshakespeare
shakespeare was a poet and a playwright of both Comedy and tragedy. He wrote hamlet and the tempest. he was inspired by ovid, seneca, plutarch, and montaigne.
and the biblebible
the bible is the religious book of christian written in hebrew and koine greek.
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