Abstract
Religia a constituit întotdeauna un sistem de semnificare important care a fost înţelept explorat şi utilizat de cercetători şi artişti datorită panopliei sale de parabole gata făcute, simboluri, metafore sau arhetipuri. Herman Melville nu face excepţie de la acest lucru. Această lucrare încearcă să identifice câteva situaţii în care discursul religios aruncă lumină asupra sensurilor.
Abstract
Religion, no matter which one in particular, has always constituted an important signifying system which has been wisely explored and exploited by scholars and artists for its rich display of “ready-made” parables, symbols, metaphors, or archetypes. Taking advantage of the fact that the teachings of the holy scriptures were so deeply and vividly present in the conscience of all church-goers, artists, writers in particular, did not hesitate to use religious imagery, religious symbolism, religious discourse in general, in order to convey their meanings more easily, and surely a lot more efficiently.
Herman Melville is no exception; without the pretence of exhaustiveness, this paper tries a very brief survey of some of the instances in which religious discourse enlightens and unveils meaning in Moby-Dick.
