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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Menetekel

The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom

Todd Tyner Cronkhite

Menetekel

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Menetekel

The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Menetekel

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Menetekel: The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom explores a literary and cultural phenomenon known as menetekel—a sign or warning of impending disaster—using Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as a guide to understanding how such signs are read, interpreted, and contested.

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Beschrijving Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Menetekel

Menetekel: The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom explores a literary and cultural phenomenon known as menetekel—a sign or warning of impending disaster—using Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as a guide to understanding how such signs are read, interpreted, and contested.

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9781041347927
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226
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Literaire non-fictie
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1
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