02970nam 22006014a 450 991082191140332120230721024930.01-282-45278-91-4411-0330-9(CKB)2520000000008169(EBL)476552(OCoLC)647872985(SSID)ssj0000340303(PQKBManifestationID)11256720(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340303(PQKBWorkID)10388236(PQKB)11736266(MiAaPQ)EBC476552(Au-PeEL)EBL476552(CaPaEBR)ebr10364047(CaONFJC)MIL245278(OCoLC)893334809(EXLCZ)99252000000000816920090323d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMelville, mapping and globalization[electronic resource] literary cartography in the American baroque writer /Robert T. Tally JrLondon ;New York Continuumc20091 online resource (186 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-6321-2 0-8264-7151-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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'sContinuum literary studies.Setting (Literature)Space and time in literatureSetting (Literature)Space and time in literature.813/.3Tally Robert T618956MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821911403321Melville, mapping and globalization4085387UNINA