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Author Radu Cucu, Sorin

Title Handsomely Done : Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
Published Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz; Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political; Moby-Dick and Perpetual War / Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végső; Bartleby Politics / Emily Apter; Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville / Walter A. Johnston; The Coward's Paradox: Pip's Weak Resistance / Barbara N. Nagel; From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971 Prison Uprising / Paul Downes; Part 2. Audiovisual Melville
"A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered": The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd / David CopenhaferNecrophilology / Jacques Lezra; Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin's Orson Whales / John T. Hamilton; The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze) / Peter Szendy; Belle Trouvaille: Between Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail) / Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz; A-religion / Jean-Luc Nancy; Contributors; Index
Summary Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from the fields of comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies that examines Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent relevance--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Film adaptations -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Film adaptations
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Vegso, Roland
Apter, Emily
Johnston, Walter
Nagel, Barbara Natalie
Downes, Paul
Copenhafer, David
Lezra, Jacques
Hamilton, John
Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel
ISBN 9780810139756
0810139758