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Autore: | Tally Robert T |
Titolo: | Melville, mapping and globalization [[electronic resource] ] : literary cartography in the American baroque writer / / Robert T. Tally Jr |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910456762603321 |
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