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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum literary studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.Description: xiii, 171 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PS2387 .T35 2009eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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