Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power : A Reading of 'Moby-Dick' /
This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought: recent theories of power, as articulated...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Enigma of Power
- 2 Call Me Ishmael
- 3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound
- 4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index