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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780947703321

Autore

Tally Robert T

Titolo

Melville, mapping and globalization [[electronic resource] ] : literary cartography in the American baroque writer / / Robert T. Tally Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-282-45278-9

1-4411-0330-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Setting (Literature)

Space and time in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's