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Brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
  • Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political
  • 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö
  • 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter
  • 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston
  • 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel
  • 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes
  • Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville
  • 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer
  • 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra
  • 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton
  • 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy
  • 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
  • 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780810139732, 978-0810139732
        ISBN10: 0810139731
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        Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.

        Table of Contents
        • Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
        • Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political
        • 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö
        • 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter
        • 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston
        • 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel
        • 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes
        • Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville
        • 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer
        • 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra
        • 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton
        • 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy
        • 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
        • 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy

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