Nowka, ScottDeFrancis, TheresaButton, Catherine2021-11-292021-11-292014-05-012015-03-12http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/535This work means to examine Moby-Dick through Bill Brown's use of methodological fetishism and to build upon his argument. The human-object dialectic is explored and flipped, providing a view of the novel in which the objects take precedent and create a collection of quasi-objects that distorts the typical approach of analysis through human action and thought. The objects in the novel act upon the humans in ways of their own - telling stories, taking on different roles, commanding the crew, and creating and destroying their quasi-object human counterparts.ThesisMoby-Dickobjectsmethodological fetishismBill BrownLatour