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Handsomely Done : Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from the fields of comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies that examines Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent relevance-...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Northwestern University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz; Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political; Moby-Dick and Perpetual War / Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Vegső; Bartleby Politics / Emily Apter; Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville / Walter A. Johnston; The Coward's Paradox: Pip's Weak Resistance / Barbara N. Nagel; From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971 Prison Uprising / Paul Downes; Part 2. Audiovisual Melville
- "A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered": The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd / David CopenhaferNecrophilology / Jacques Lezra; Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin's Orson Whales / John T. Hamilton; The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze) / Peter Szendy; Belle Trouvaille: Between Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail) / Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz; A-religion / Jean-Luc Nancy; Contributors; Index