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The Errant Art of Moby-Dick : The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies /
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 publicat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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 Americanist 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: Indeterminancy 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""