literary cartography in the American baroque writer /
Robert T. Tally Jr
New York :
Continuum,
c2009
xiii, 171 p. ;
24 cm
Continuum literary studies series
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation