Ahab unbound : Melville and the materialist turn /

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"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farmer, Meredith, 1983- (Editor ), Schroeder, Jonathan (D. S.), 1981- (Editor ), Otter, Samuel, 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Moby Dick.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Characters.
Ahab, > Captain (Fictitious character)
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Characters > Captain Ahab.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Materialism in literature.
Whaling in literature.
Sailors in literature.
Marins dans la littérature.
Matérialisme dans la littérature.
Achab (Personnage fictif)
Récits de mer américains > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Characters and characteristics.
Sea stories, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
  • Part I: Ontologies
  • Chapter 1: Sailing without Ahab
  • Chapter 2: Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
  • Chapter 3: Ahab after Agency
  • Chapter 4: Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow
  • or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
  • Part II: Relations
  • Chapter 5: Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
  • Chapter 6: Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
  • Chapter 7: "The King Is a Thing."
  • Or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
  • Chapter 8: Approaching Ahab Blind
  • Part III: Politics
  • Chapter 9: "This Post-Mortemizing of the Whale": The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
  • Chapter 10: Ahab's Electromagnetic Constitution
  • Chapter 11: The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
  • Chapter 12: Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
  • Part IV: New Melvilles
  • Chapter 13: Ahab's After-Life: The Tortoises of "The Encantadas"
  • Chapter 14: Israel Potter
  • or, The Excrescence
  • Chapter 15: Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
  • Chapter 16: Melville's Basement Tapes
  • Afterword: Melville among the Materialists
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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