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2013,4 ◼ 23. The first American prose epic is . A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The Was and C. Moby –Dick D. The Great Gatsby Melville’s major works 1) Early works: Mardi; 玛地 Redburn; 雷得 （semi-autobiographical novel） White Jacket 白外衣 Moby-Dick 2) Late works: Pierre; 皮埃尔( a popular romance for feminine market, but provoking repudiation, and his fame was on the decline) Billy Budd (second famous) 比利-伯德(Deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a between innocence and corruption) The confidence-Man (not a sea novel) Melville’s viewpoints 1. Apart from Hawthorne, whose black vision regarding the evil of human beings had in some way changed Melville’s outlook on life and whose allegorical way of exposition had affected his writing techniques, Shakespearean tragic vision and Emersionian Transcendentalism also produced some positive effect of his writing. Melville’s viewpoints 2. In the early ones, Melville is more enthusiastic about setting out on a quest for the meaning of the universe, hence they are more metaphysical形而上学的, 超自然的and the ma haracters are ardent激烈的and self- dramatizing 自 的 “I”,defying God, as best reflected on Moby-Dick; while in the late works, Melville es more reconciled with the world of man, in which, he admits, one must live by rules. Theme ◼ The purpose of Melville’s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to p rate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical, theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of human existence. 2001.4 ◼ 29. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case? A. Typee. B. Moby