Autore	Spanos William V
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina	325/.32/0973
Soggetto topico	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Influence Imperialism - History - 20th century East and West Postmodernism - Political aspects - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8166-9021-9 0-8166-5294-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Ontological Origins of Occidental Imperialism: Thinking the Meta of Metaphysics; 2. Culture and Colonization: The Imperial Imperatives of the Centered Circle; 3. Vietnam and the Pax Americana: A Genealogy of the ""New World Order""; 4. ""Theory"" and the End of History: Rethinking Postmodernity; 5. Thinking in the Interregnum: Prolegomenon to a Spectral Politics; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451707403321

Autore	Spanos William V
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (393 p.)
Disciplina	813/.3
Collana	New Americanists
Soggetto topico	Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Sea stories, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Criticism - United States - History - 20th century Canon (Literature) Cold War
ISBN	0-8223-1599-8 0-8223-7958-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. MOBY-DICK AND THE AMERICAN CANON -- Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation -- A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945 -- The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War -- The New Americanists and Moby-Dick -- The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse -- 2. METAPHYSICS AND SPATIAL FORM: MELVILLE'S CRITIQUE OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION -- Tragic Vision and Metaphysics -- Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick -- Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick -- 3. THE ERRANT ART OF MOBY-DICK -- The Question of Ishmael's Name -- Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text -- The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement -- The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale -- Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick -- Ishmael, Theory, and Practice -- The Self as Orphan -- Ishmael and Negative Capability -- Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration -- Cetology and Discipline -- Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony -- Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis -- Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book -- The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition -- The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality -- 4. MOBY-DICK AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OCCASION -- The "Vietnam Syndrome" -- Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches -- The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War -- Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910787042503321

Autore	Spanos William V
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (393 p.)
Disciplina	813/.3
Collana	New Americanists
Soggetto topico	Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Sea stories, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Criticism - United States - History - 20th century Canon (Literature) Cold War
ISBN	9780822315995 0822315998 9780822379584 0822379589
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. MOBY-DICK AND THE AMERICAN CANON -- Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation -- A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945 -- The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War -- The New Americanists and Moby-Dick -- The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse -- 2. METAPHYSICS AND SPATIAL FORM: MELVILLE'S CRITIQUE OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION -- Tragic Vision and Metaphysics -- Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick -- Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick -- 3. THE ERRANT ART OF MOBY-DICK -- The Question of Ishmael's Name -- Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text -- The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement -- The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale -- Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick -- Ishmael, Theory, and Practice -- The Self as Orphan -- Ishmael and Negative Capability -- Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration -- Cetology and Discipline -- Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony -- Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis -- Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book -- The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition -- The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality -- 4. MOBY-DICK AND THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN OCCASION -- The "Vietnam Syndrome" -- Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches -- The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War -- Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910974217403321