Special Issue Published: Melville, Media and Narratives

MELVILLE, MEDIA AND NARRATIVES Herman Melville’s birthday (On August 1, 1819)was a foreshadowing gesture of the present special issue, having come out of a long –somewhat protracted—collaboration, which coincides with the original publication of Moby-Dick: The   October 18, 1851. 173 years later, we are delighted to present this special issue of our journal, Vol. 12, No. 25, Special Issue: Melville, Media, and Narratives, which brings together a collection of scholarly articles exploring the enduring legacy and multifaceted adaptations of Herman Melville's works.   The Journal of Narrative and Language Studies takes the opportunity to celebrate Melville’s resonating myth of the human being at the threshold of posthumanism, which explored the human psyche and mysterious potentials from dignity to evil, having been protracted for centuries but eventually led to oblivion. Since he thoroughly, painstakingly, peculiarly created Moby-Dick” and crafted a world of consuming human desire that represents the universal human condition, readers, writers, and artists have been enormously inspired to envisage, fancy, create, design and produce verbal or nonverbal arts in the form of visual works or other means of imagination.

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“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory”: Herman Melville's Resonating Narrative Legacy.