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
Otros Autores: Otter, Samuel, 1956- (author of foreword.), Schroeder, Jonathan (D. S.), 1981- (Editor ), Farmer, Meredith, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Characters > Captain Ahab.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Moby Dick.
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)
Whaling in literature.
Sea stories, American.
Sailors in literature.
Materialism in literature.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
  • Meredith Farmer
  • Part I. Ontologies
  • 1. Sailing without Ahab
  • Steve Mentz
  • 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
  • Branka Arsić
  • 3. Ahab after Agency
  • Mark D. Noble
  • 4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
  • Christian P. Haines
  • Part II. Relations
  • 5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
  • Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese
  • 6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
  • Michael D. Snediker
  • 7.'The King is a Thing'; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
  • Russell Sbriglia
  • 8. Approaching Ahab Blind
  • Christopher Castiglia
  • Part III. Politics
  • 9. 'this post-mortemizing of the whale': The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
  • Bonnie Honig
  • 10.Ahab's Electromagnetic Constitution
  • Donald E. Pease
  • 11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
  • Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
  • 12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
  • Jonathan Lamb
  • Part IV. New Melvilles
  • 13. Ahab's After-Life: The Tortoises of 'The Encantadas'
  • Matthew A. Taylor
  • 14. Israel Potter; or, the Excrescence
  • Colin Dayan
  • 15.Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
  • Ivy Wilson
  • 16. Melville's Basement Tapes
  • John Modern
  • Afterword: Melville Among the Materialists
  • Samuel Otter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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