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1997
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Anne Wicke et al., « Le spleen du maître d’école : Ismaël et le savoir dans Moby-Dick », Revue Française d'Études Américaines, ID : 10.3406/rfea.1997.1673
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This paper focuses on the highly ambivalent relation that Ishmael-as the narrator of the hunt -maintains with knowledge. This relation seems to be structured around two specific functions : knowledge as an implement of power and as a means of protection or resistance. It will eventually be seen how Ishmael's school-teacher's strategy proves powerless in front of his own Ahabian facet and the fascination for the white whale it entails.