Tally, Robert T.

Melville, mapping and globalization literary cartography in the American baroque writer / [electronic resource] : Robert T. Tally Jr. - London ; New York : Continuum, c2009. - xiii, 171 p. - Continuum literary studies series . - Continuum literary studies. .

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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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.


Setting (Literature)
Space and time in literature.


Electronic books.

PS2387 / .T35 2009eb

813/.3