Handsomely Done : Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville / edited by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Melville, Herman.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Influence.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz

Moby-Dick and perpetual war / Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Vegso

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

"A sound not easily to be verbally rendered" : the literary acoustic of Billy Budd / David Copenhafer

Necrophilology / 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.

Notes:

"The present book had its origin in a one-day workshop entitled "Multimedia Melville" at Oxford's Ertegun House in 2013, organized by Denise Koller."

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-3975-8

OCLC:

1089605205