The Errant Art of Moby-Dick : The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies /

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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publicati...

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Autor principal: Spanos, William V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1995]
Colección:New Americanists
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. MOBY-DICK AND THE AMERICAN CANON
  • Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation
  • A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945
  • The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War
  • The New Americanists and Moby-Dick
  • The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse
  • 2. METAPHYSICS AND SPATIAL FORM: MELVILLE'S CRITIQUE OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION
  • Tragic Vision and Metaphysics
  • Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick
  • Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick
  • 3. THE ERRANT ART OF MOBY-DICK
  • The Question of Ishmael's Name
  • Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text
  • The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement
  • The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale
  • Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick
  • Ishmael, Theory, and Practice
  • The Self as Orphan
  • Ishmael and Negative Capability
  • Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration
  • Cetology and Discipline
  • Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony
  • Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis
  • Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book
  • The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition
  • The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality
  • 4. MOBY-DICK AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OCCASION
  • The "Vietnam Syndrome"
  • Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches
  • The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War
  • Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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