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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick
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Call me Shmoop...er, we mean, Ishmael. It’s time to catch a whale. ...Just kidding, we’ll read about it instead. The WWF told us we can’t d...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: What is Southern Gothic?
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Ready for a horror story that isn’t about a bad hair day? Pick up a Southern Gothic novel like Moby-Dick or As I Lay Dying instead. Though now th...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Writer's Inspiration
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Add half a cup of post-Civil War, a pinch of Reconstruction, a cup full of race issues, toss it in a Crock Pot called “The South,” and you’ve...

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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Characters and Keywords 7361 Views


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What is hubris? What is cetology? What is foreshadowing? What is transcendentalism? What is a monomaniac? What is apotheosis? Who are all these characters? Will we ever stop asking questions? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide, no escape from reality…

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