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

• Autore: Tally Robert T
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.3
• Soggetto topico: Setting (Literature); Space and time in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Melville, mapping and globalization
• ISBN: 1-282-45278-9; 1-4411-0330-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821911403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.