This thesis on the metaphysical function of the White Whale in Moby-Dick is the outgrowth of preliminary research related to Herman Melville's dramatic technique in the same book -in some particulars, a technique seemingly ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explicate Mark Twain's The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in terms of modern, American, literary allegory and thereby demonstrate that this work, until now dismissed by the critics ...