Melville, mapping and globalization literary cartography in the American baroque writer /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
c2009.
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| Serie: | Continuum literary studies.
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Sommario:
- 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.