
Melville, Mapping and Globalization
Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer
Robert T. Tally Jr.(Author)
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 29. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4411-6321-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's distinct literary form enabled his critique of the dominant national narrative of his own time and proleptically undermined the national literary tradition of American Studies a century later. Melville's hypercanonical status in the United States makes his work all the more crucial for understanding the role of literature in a post-American epoch. Offering bold new interpretations and theoretical juxtapositions, Tally presents a postnational Melville, well suited to establishing new approaches to American and world literature in the twenty-first century.
Reviews / Votes
"In Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer, Robert Tally, unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, refuses the temptation to domesticate Herman Melville's polyvalent literary excesses. Instead he goes all out to think them positively. The result is a major contribution to the New Americanist effort to reconstellate Melville's work out of the American nationalist context where it has been mired into the global context where it has always belonged." - Distinguished Professor William V. Spanos, Binghamton University, New York, USA Tally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike. -Routledge ABESMore details
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NIPPOD
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-6321-9 (9781441163219)
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Melville, Mapping and Globalization
Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer
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Melville, Mapping and Globalization
Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer
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Person
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.
Content
Acknowledgements; Preface: "When Leviathan's the text"; 1. Out of Bounds: Melville's American Baroque; 2. Spaces of American Literature: Geography and Narrative Form; 3. "An everlasting terra incognita": Globalization and World Literature; 4. Anti-Ishmael; 5. Marine Nomadology: Melville's Antinomy of Pure Reason; 6. "Spaces that before were blank": The Utopia of the Periphery; 7. A Prosy Stroll: Overview and the Urban Itinerary; 8. The Ambiguities of Place: Local Narrative and the Global City; Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish," or, The Cartography of the Kraken; Bibliography; Index.