"An Artist in the Rigging" is a study of Herman Melville's early
novels--"Typee," "Omoo," "Mardi," "Redburn," and "White-Jacket."
The author considers these fictions from the standpoint of thematic
relationship rather than of chronological development. He shows
that while the five hero-narrators are separate and distinct
entities, they have much in common and can be seen as representing
different facets of an emergent composite hero-from the sensitive
and restless young man who leaves home to search hungrily for
experience, to the wanderer immersed in a deep probing of himself
and his world. The hero's thirst for psychological
independence--what comes to be his overriding ambition--is never
satisfied, and destruction becomes inevitable, culminating in a
paradoxical "apotheosis" in which the narrator-hero achieves this
independence, but only at the expense of his humanity.
Dillingham persuasively demonstrates the interrelated qualities
of these five novels, and in so doing he shows that the young
Melville was a far greater literary artist than he gave himself
credit for being. This fiction constitutes a powerful achievement
in richness of texture, range of effect, and depth of
characterization, as "An Artist in the Rigging" makes clear.
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