The whiteness of the whale, silence du chant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11823972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Jaworski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 351-375 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue française d’études américaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0397-7870 • E-ISSN: 1776-3061 |
| Publisher | Éditions Belin (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3406/rfea.1991.1440 |
| OpenAlex | W2582910646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Chapter 42 in Moby-Dick might well be said to be Melville's most complex speculation on the unnamable. Maneuvering between explanation and illustration, analysis and incantation, question and silence, terror and mystery, the discourse proceeds forward and backward to an unlikely understanging of the « phenomenon » of whiteness. Though unveilings but reveal other veils, the narrator's logical imagination will have eventually made an eventful journey through both values of the chromatic idea : hue and tone. Hence our discussion of painting and song, the visible and the inaudible. The method of presentation makes use of the « weaver's loom » metaphor : « In all this din of the great world's loom, thy subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar. » (102 : 375)
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Literature · LOOM · Metaphor · Painting · Phenomenon · Silence · Theology · Tone (literature · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |