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The errant art of Moby-Dick :

(Number (ISBN

082231584X

(Number (ISBN

0822315998

(Number (ISBN

9780822315841

(Number (ISBN

9780822315995

Title Proper

The errant art of Moby-Dick :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the canon, the Cold War, and the struggle for American studies /

First Statement of Responsibility

William V. Spanos.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham, N.C. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 374 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

New Americanists

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.

Text of Note

Moby-Dick and the American Canon -- Metaphysics and spatial form: Melville's critique of speculative philosophy and fiction -- The errant art of Moby-Dick -- Moby-Dick and the contemporary American occasion.

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Text of Note

"In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick--a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication--William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Americanist" critics from F. O. Matthiessen to Lionel Trilling. But Spanos also shows, with the novel still as his focus, the limitations of this "New Americanist" discourse and its failure to escape the totalizing imperial perspective it finds in its predecessor.Combining Heideggerian ontology with a sociopolitical perspective derived primarily from Foucault, the reading of Moby-Dick that forms the center of this book demonstrates that the traditional identification of Melville's novel as a "romance" renders it complicitous in the discourse of the Cold War. At the same time, Spanos shows how New Americanist criticism overlooks the degree to which Moby-Dick anticipates not only America's self-representation as the savior of the world against communism, but also the emergent postmodern and anti-imperial discourse deployed against such an image. Spanos's critique reveals the extraordinary relevance of Melville's novel as a post-Cold War text, foreshadowing not only the self-destructive end of the historical formation of the American cultural identity in the genocidal assault on Vietnam, but also the reactionary labeling of the current era as "the end of history.""--Back cover.

Title

Errant art of Moby-Dick.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Influence.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891., Moby Dick.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Influence.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Influence.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891., Moby Dick.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Influence.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891., Moby Dick.

Melville, Herman,1819-1891.

Melville, Herman.

Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)

American literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Canon (Literature)

Cold War.

Criticism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Sea stories, American-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)

Critique-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Guerre froide.

Littérature américaine-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Littérature et société-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Mer-- Récits américains-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Politique et littérature-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Canon (Literature)

Criticism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Literatur

Literature and society.

Moby Dick, or The Whale (Melville)

Politics and literature.

United States.

USA.

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Spanos, William V.

Date of Transaction

20200822135908.0

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[Book]

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