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Melville's philosophies /

"Meville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arsić, Branka (Editor ), Evans, Kim Leilani (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Reconstructing Melville Branka Arsić and K.L. Evans; Part One World-Making; 1 Gospel Cetology K.L. Evans; 2 Billy Budd, Billy Budd Stuart Burrows; 3 Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" Maurice S. Lee; 4 Clarel, Doubt, Delay Paul Hurh; Part Two Love Stories; 5 The Lawyer's Tale: Preference, Responsibility, and Personhood in Melville's "Story of Wall-street" Rachel Cole; 6 Pierre in Love Kenneth Dauber; 7 Phenomenology Beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain Michael D. Snediker.
  • 8 "Learning, unlearning, word by word": Feeling Faith in Melville's Clarel Rhian WilliamsPart Three Arts; 9 Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" James D. Lilley; 10 Melville, Poetry, Prints Samuel Otter; 11 A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville's Visions Elisa Tamarkin; 12 La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X Paul Grimstad; Part Four Communities; 13 Melville's Leviathan Paul Downes; 14 Bartleby's Screen Colin Dayan; 15 Melville's Misanthropology Michael Jonik.
  • 16 Desertscapes: Geological Politics in Clarel Branka ArsićContributors; Index.