How to Forgive, and Whom: Roth'sNemesisandMoby-Dick

How to Forgive, and Whom: Roth'sNemesisandMoby-Dick

This study reveals the importance for Roth'sNemesis(2010) of Melville'sMoby-Dick(1851). In Roth's narrative, Bucky Cantor becomes the leviathanic object of his own Ahabian ire for supposedly spreading the polio virus. Narrator Arnold Mesnikoff, on the other hand, grasps the arbitrarin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philip Roth studies 2013-10, Vol.9 (2), p.71-76
1. Verfasser: Duban, James
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Epidemics
Epidemiology
Hunting
Javelins
Narrators
Playgrounds
Polio
Temperament
Viruses
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Zusammenfassung:This study reveals the importance for Roth'sNemesis(2010) of Melville'sMoby-Dick(1851). In Roth's narrative, Bucky Cantor becomes the leviathanic object of his own Ahabian ire for supposedly spreading the polio virus. Narrator Arnold Mesnikoff, on the other hand, grasps the arbitrariness of disease. Arnold's good cheer and equanimity resonate with Captain Boomer's outlook in “Leg and Arm” chapter ofMoby-Dick, demarcating the equatorial divide between sanity and morbidity.
ISSN:1547-3929
1940-5278