Melville, mapping and globalization : literary cartography in the American baroque writer /: literary cartography in the American baroque writer. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert T. Tally Jr.
• Other Names: Tally, Robert T
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.3; Globalization; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Political Science -- Globalization; Literary studies: general; Setting (Literature); Space and time in literature; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441116284; 1441116281
• Related ISBNs: 9781441163219
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