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- W2052550592 abstract "Redburn was written in part to help Melville avoid the bankruptcy toward which he was heading in 1849. After the financially disastrous 'fogs' of 'Mardi',1 Melville needed to write novels that would have broader popular appeal. A realistic treatment of the merchant service could (and did) re-establish Melville's credit. But Redburn is probably as much the end product of suicidal crisis as of economic necessity; in his fourth novel, Melville took very important step away from the destructive emotional state he was evidently in during the last stages of composing Mardi. As Norman Tabachnik has pointed out, Melville's writing in general shows a mood of depression and affects equivalent to those found in suicidal state; expressions of death-like wishes abound in his creative work.2 One reason for this was that Melville's writing was inevitably committed to playing out continual pattern of quest and failure. Melville knew, long before he ever wrote his first novel, that no voyagers, be they sailors or lubbers, ever find better life than the one they start off with. Yet Melville kept sending people like Tommo out on journeys he had already decided could only lead to death (as in the case of Ahab) or to some inconclusive standoff with life (as in the case of Ishmael or Israel Potter). Melville obsessively repeated the pattern of quest and frustration partly to fend off emotional collapse—if he were to give over to pure pessimism, he was dead. Partly, too, it was matter of discipline, as it was later to be with Hemingway: if one cannot achieve the life one wants, as Melville never could, he must then train himself to accept failure by continually facing failure in his creations. This pattern of artistic impulse, of course, sets up unresolvable tensions which inevitably reach crisis proportions, where it seems better to the individual that he be annihilated than go on with the frustrating job of fighting an elaborate psychic holding action." @default.
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- W2052550592 title "Redburn: The Psychological Pattern" @default.
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