Melville, mapping and globalization literary cartography in the American baroque writer /

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Autor Principal: Tally, Robert T.
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Table of 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.