LEADER 02970nam 22006014a 450 001 9910821911403321 005 20230721024930.0 010 $a1-282-45278-9 010 $a1-4411-0330-9 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008169 035 $a(EBL)476552 035 $a(OCoLC)647872985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256720 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388236 035 $a(PQKB)11736266 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476552 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476552 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245278 035 $a(OCoLC)893334809 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008169 100 $a20090323d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMelville, mapping and globalization$b[electronic resource] $eliterary cartography in the American baroque writer /$fRobert T. Tally Jr 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-6321-2 311 $a0-8264-7151-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface: "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. 330 $aIn Melville, Mapping and Globalization , Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aSetting (Literature) 606 $aSpace and time in literature 615 0$aSetting (Literature) 615 0$aSpace and time in literature. 676 $a813/.3 700 $aTally$b Robert T$0618956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821911403321 996 $aMelville, mapping and globalization$94085387 997 $aUNINA