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The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos
| The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos |
| 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 |
Spanos William V
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| Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos
| The errant art of Moby-Dick : the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies / / William V. Spanos |
| 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-9910820313303321 |
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Spanos William V
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| Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1995 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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