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1、HermanMelville1819---1891Nationality:AmericanOccupation:novelist,shortstorywriter,teacher,sailor,lecturer,poet,customsinspectorLifestory1819,borninNewYorkCityintoanestablishedmerchantfamily(3rdof8children).1832,fatherdied,bankruptandapparentlyinsane.1837,asacabinboyonamerchant
2、shipforLiverpool.1839-41,shippedoutinonAcushnettotheAtlanticandtheSouthSeas.Helatersaid,“AwhaleshipwasmyHarvardandYale."Melville'sMajorWorksTypee(1846)《泰皮》Omoo(1847)《欧穆》Redburn(1849)《雷得本》Mardi(1849)《玛地》政治宗教寓言White-Jacket(1850)《白外衣》MobyDick(1851)《白鲸》Pierre(1852)《皮埃尔》BillyBudd《比
3、利·巴德》(手稿1891,未完成；直到1924年才出版)GoingouttoseaHismarriageHisfriendshipwithHawthorneThreeimportantthingsinhislife:Sea-travelexperienceEarlylife---ceaselesstravelonsea.Firstnavalvoyagein1839toLiverpool.SailforyearsasawhalerandintheUSNavy.In1841,wenttotheSouthSeaonawhalingship,wherehe
4、gainedtheinformationaboutwhalingthathelaterusedinMoby-Dick.FriendshipwithHawthorneMeetingHawthorneinthesummerof1850,neibours.ConfidantwithwhomMelvilleoftendiscussedhiswork.InfluencedbyhisblackvisionRevisingMobyDickDedicatingMobyDicktoHawthorneFeaturesofworksEarlierWorks—drawin
5、guponhisseaexperiences—blackandwhiteLaterWorks—ReconciliationbetweenmanandGod—livingbytherulesofthisworldWritingStyleRealistic＆SymbolicPhilosophical＆Intellectualnaturaldepictionsoflifeonthesea/basedonpersonalexperiences/interminglefact,fictionandsubtlesymbolism/explorephilosop
6、hicalandintellectualissuesthroughrealisticdescriptions(symbols)/tellarealisticstorywithintellectualundertones.RealisticMelvillewrotestoriesthatwereveryrealistic.Hisstoriesfrequentlydealtwithnaturaldepictionsoflifeonthesea.Themajorityofhiswritingwasbasedonpersonalexperienceswhi
7、leaboardwhalingships.Melvillewrotewithastylethatwashisown,interminglingfact,fiction,andsubtlesymbolism.Hiswritingstylewasunfamiliartotheliteratureofthetime;heallowedhisstoriesto"ebbandflow"ratherthansimplyfollowoneplot.WritingStylePhilosophicalintellectualandsymbolicUnlikemost
8、realists,however,helacedhisstorieswithphilosophicalandintelle
