Melville, mapping and globalization : literary cartography in the American baroque writer /

In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tally, Robert T., Jr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891
Setting (Literature)
Space and time in literature.
Espace et temps (Littérature)
setting (surroundings)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Space and time in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: "when Leviathan's the text"
  • Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque
  • Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form
  • 'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature
  • Anti-Ishmael
  • Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason
  • 'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery
  • A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary
  • The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city
  • Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.

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