Last whales: Eschatology, extinction, and the cetacean imaginary in Winton and Pash

Few of the earth’s creatures capture the popular imagination quite like the whale, which has come to serve as an ambivalent figure for both salvation and perdition, whether the moral dramas that unfold around it are seen in religious (eschatological) or scientific (ecological) terms. Whales are at o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of Commonwealth literature 2017-06, Vol.52 (2), p.382-396
1. Verfasser:	Huggan, Graham
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Australian literature Eschatology Extinction Literary criticism Morality Narrative theme Pash, Chris Pointing Symbolism Whales & whaling Winton, Tim
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