Melville and the Vortex Theory of Matter
The brief reference to the Cartesian vortex in Moby-Dick has already been discussed in numerous specialized articles, usually in terms of the history of ideas, e.g. in two articles by D. C. Leonard (1979; 1980). By itself, a vortex is an appropriate image for being immersed, obsessed, absorbed, and...
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Main Author: | Paweł Stachura |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2023-09-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20759 |
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