Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power : a reading of 'Moby-Dick' / Eyal Peretz.
Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power : a reading of 'Moby-Dick' / Eyal Peretz.
Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power : a reading of 'Moby-Dick' / Eyal Peretz.
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Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
Call Numbers
N813.3/14
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Language
English
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Physical content
176 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Enigma of Power -- 2. Call Me Ishmael -- 3. Ahab's Whale - A Bleeding Wound -- 4. Ishmael's Whale - Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author.
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Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"From within this existential and conceptual revolution, the present book examines what is arguably the most profound and complex narrative of disaster in modern literature - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Melville's novel, the book claims, identified and explored ahead of its time - in a gesture that Walter Benjamin famously called the literary work...
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Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power : a reading of 'Moby-Dick' / Eyal Peretz.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.
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Other version (online)
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N813.3/14
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74Vvloe2xP6d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvloe2xP6d
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ISBN
0804746141 (hbk.)
9780804746144 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804746141 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804746144 :
0804746141 :
9780804746144 (hbk.)
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813.3
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991017466059702626
