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- catalog abstract ""The history of the twentieth century has been marked by incredible violence and catastrophe. These events not only affected the material and historical conditions of life, but had profound conceptual implications. Over the last fifty years, all the traditional artistic and theoretical fields, from philosophy to law, history, and literary theory, have been transformed. Indeed, one might speak of a catastrophic turn in the realm of thinking and in the concepts and the problems that various theoretical discourses must face." "From within this existential and conceptual revolution, the present book examines what is arguably the most profound and complex narrative of disaster in modern literature - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Melville's novel, the book claims, identified and explored ahead of its time - in a gesture that Walter Benjamin famously called the literary work's "secret appointment with a future moment"--Perhaps in an unparalleled manner, the crucial implications of a new thinking of disaster, a thinking that necessarily has to do with a new thinking of the literary."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12746909.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The history of the twentieth century has been marked by incredible violence and catastrophe. These events not only affected the material and historical conditions of life, but had profound conceptual implications. Over the last fifty years, all the traditional artistic and theoretical fields, from philosophy to law, history, and literary theory, have been transformed. Indeed, one might speak of a catastrophic turn in the realm of thinking and in the concepts and the problems that various theoretical discourses must face." "From within this existential and conceptual revolution, the present book examines what is arguably the most profound and complex narrative of disaster in modern literature - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Melville's novel, the book claims, identified and explored ahead of its time - in a gesture that Walter Benjamin famously called the literary work's "secret appointment with a future moment"--Perhaps in an unparalleled manner, the crucial implications of a new thinking of disaster, a thinking that necessarily has to do with a new thinking of the literary."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Enigma of power -- Call me Ishmael -- Ahab's whale -- a bleeding wound -- Ishmael's whale -- whiteness and the witness, or the collapse of the author.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.".
- catalog extent "176 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Literature, disaster and the enigma of power.".
- catalog identifier "0804746141 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Literature, disaster and the enigma of power.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Literature, disaster and the enigma of power.".
- catalog subject "813/.3 21".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.".
- catalog subject "PS2384.M62 P47 2003".
- catalog subject "Power (Social sciences) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sea stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Whales in literature.".
- catalog subject "Whaling in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Enigma of power -- Call me Ishmael -- Ahab's whale -- a bleeding wound -- Ishmael's whale -- whiteness and the witness, or the collapse of the author.".
- catalog title "Literature, disaster, and the enigma of power : a reading of 'Moby-Dick' / Eyal Peretz.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".