Melville, mapping and globalization [electronic resource] : literary cartography in the American baroque writer / Robert T. Tally Jr.
By: Tally, Robert T.
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BookSeries: Continuum literary studies: Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2009Description: xiii, 171 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation | Setting (Literature) | Space and time in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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