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Selected Works of Steven Olsen-Smith
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Student Researchers Spend Summer with an Icon of American Literature
Update (2010)
  • Erin Ryan, Boise State University
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Abstract
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines."

So exclaims Ishmael, the iconic narrator of Herman Melville's treasured epic "Moby Dick." The passage is part of a larger musing on existential determinism, one that relates in an ethereal way to four young scholars in the English Department devoted to researching Melville's life and work.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 29, 2010
Citation Information
Erin Ryan. "Student Researchers Spend Summer with an Icon of American Literature" Update (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/steven_olsen-smith/19/