| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: "To Fight Some Other World"; Introduction: Renderings of the Whale; Constructing Moby-Dick: Breakdown and Redemption; Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened: The Astman Distinguished Lecture; "Ungainly Gambols" and Circumnavigating the Truth: Breaking the Narrative of Moby-Dick; "Chiefly Known by His Rod": The Book of Jonah, Mapple's Sermon, and Scapegoating; Man, Mind, Whale; Filling the Void: A Lacanian Angle of Vision on Moby-Dick |
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Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Depressive Mind: Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask as Symbolic Characters Correspondences: Paranoiac Lexicographers and Melvillean Heroes; Moby-Dick and Law; "Deadly Voids and Unbidden Infidelities": Death, Memory, and Law in Moby-Dick; "I Stand Alone Here upon an Open Sea": Starbuck and the Limits of Positive Law; Reading and Mapping; Morality and Rhetoric in Moby-Dick; Moby-Dick's Lessons: or How Reading Might Save One's Life; Mapping and Measurement in Moby-Dick; Flood-Gates of the Wonder World: Race and the Americas |
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"In This Simple Savage Old Rules Would Not Apply": Cetology and the Subject of Race in Moby-Dick"Kings of the Upside-Down World": Challenging White Hegemony in Moby-Dick; "So Spanishly Poetic": Moby-Dick's Doubloon and Latin America; Dreaming a Dream of Interracial Bonds: From Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick; Very Like a Whale: Moby-Dick in Translation; "There's another rendering now": On Translating Moby-Dick into German; The Brazilian Whale; Modern Breachings: Moby-Dick on Stage and Web; Leviathanic Revelations: Laurie Anderson's, Rinde Eckert's, and John Barrymore's Moby Dicks |
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Feminizing Moby-Dick: Contemporary Women Perform the WhaleFusing with the Muse: Eckert's Great Whales as Homage and Prophecy; "Lying in Various Attitudes": Staging Melville's Pip in Digital Media; General Works Cited; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Moby Dick (Melville, Herman) fast |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edwards, Mary K. Bercaw
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Marr, Timothy
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| ISBN |
9781631010309 |
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1631010301 |
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