Machine generated contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn -- Meredith Farmer -- Part I. Ontologies -- 1. Sailing without Ahab -- Steve Mentz -- 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales -- Branka Arsić -- 3. Ahab after Agency …
"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studies, e…
"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studies, e…
In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, McGettigan shows that this "aesthetics of the material…
In this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical …
