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This reading of Melville's "Moby-Dick" brings into play some of the most consequential developments in philosophy, cultural studies and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought.

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"A highly unusual meditation on Moby-Dick, powerful and enigmatic in itself." -Wai Chee Dimock,Yale University

Table of Contents
Introduction I From Judgment to Power, 3 America-A Witnessing of Europe, 19 1 The Enigma of Power 27 2 Call Me Ishmael 35 Leviathanalysis, 46 3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound 48 Language as Hunt; Language as Wail, 54 4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author 67 The Power of Whiteness, 68 Two Understandings of the Fabulous, 86 Moby-Dick and Literary History, 90 Ishmael: Whale-Author(ity), 98 Coda, 118

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/12/2002
      ISBN13: 9780804746144, 978-0804746144
      ISBN10: 0804746141

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This reading of Melville's "Moby-Dick" brings into play some of the most consequential developments in philosophy, cultural studies and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought.

      Trade Review
      "A highly unusual meditation on Moby-Dick, powerful and enigmatic in itself." -Wai Chee Dimock,Yale University

      Table of Contents
      Introduction I From Judgment to Power, 3 America-A Witnessing of Europe, 19 1 The Enigma of Power 27 2 Call Me Ishmael 35 Leviathanalysis, 46 3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound 48 Language as Hunt; Language as Wail, 54 4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author 67 The Power of Whiteness, 68 Two Understandings of the Fabulous, 86 Moby-Dick and Literary History, 90 Ishmael: Whale-Author(ity), 98 Coda, 118

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