All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and... The Bookman - Página 1551924Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1925 - 804 páginas
...deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race... | |
| 1926 - 402 páginas
...deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs...personified, and made practically assailable, in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race... | |
| Van Wyck Brooks - 1927 - 268 páginas
..."Beowulf" might almost be described as the prototype of the White Whale. Was not Grendel also the symbol of "all that most maddens and torments, all that stirs...the subtle demonisms of life and thought, all evil — visibly personified"? [205] THE NOVELS OF UPTON SINCLAIR THE NOVELS OF UPTON SINCLAIR • N 1889,... | |
| Van Wyck Brooks - 1927 - 266 páginas
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| Norman Foerster - 1928 - 300 páginas
...profound symbolism all compact. "Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete." "All evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick." The struggle is symbolized between the eternal ruthlessness of nature and the enmity of... | |
| Lewis Mumford - 1929 - 404 páginas
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