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  title info:
    title: Melville's philosophies
  name:
    name part: Arsić, Branka
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Evans, Kim Leilani
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Meville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves, often very strange and quite radical, that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. Meville's Philosophies recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change and post-humanism.
  table of contents: Introduction: Reconstructing Melville -- Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA) and K.L. Evans (Cornell University, USA) PART ONE: WORLD-MAKING -- 1. Gospel Cetology -- K.L. Evans (Cornell University, USA) -- 2. Billy Budd, Billy Budd -- Stuart Burrows (Brown University, USA) -- 3. Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" -- Maurice S. Lee (Boston University, USA) -- 4. Clarel, Doubt, Delay -- Paul Hurh (University of Arizona, USA) PART TWO: LOVE STORIES -- 5. The Lawyer's Tale: Preference, Responsibility, and Personhood in Melville's 'Story of Wall-street' -- Rachel Cole (Lewis & Clark College, USA) -- 6. Pierre in Love -- Kenneth Dauber (SUNY-Buffalo, USA) -- 7. Phenomenology beyond the phantom limb: Melvillean figuration & chronic pain -- Michael Snediker (University of Houston, USA) PART THREE: ARTS -- 8. Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in "Benito Cereno" -- James D. Lilley (SUNY-Albany, USA) -- 9. Melville, Poetry, Prints -- Samuel Otter (University of California, USA) -- 10. A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville's Visions -- Elisa Tamarkin (University of California, USA) -- 11. La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X -- Paul Grimstad (New York University, USA) PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES -- 12. Melville's Leviathan -- Paul Downes (University of Toronto, Canada) -- 13. Bartleby's Screen -- Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University, USA) -- 14. Melville's Misanthropology -- Michael Jonik (University of Sussex, UK) -- 15. Clarel and the Deforestation of Palestine -- Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA) Index.
  note: edited by Branka Arsić and K.L. Evans.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville, Herman
      name part: 1819-1891
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville, Herman
      name part: 1819-1891
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  classification: PS2388.P5 M45 2017
  classification: 813/.3
  identifier: 9781501321016
  identifier: 1501321013
  identifier: 2016045112
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161102
    record change date: 20170926120354.0
    record identifier: in00003806074