Herman Melville and the American calling : the fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857 / by Spanos, William V.

Herman Melville and the American calling : fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857 / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Melville's specter : an introduction -- Pierre's extraordinary emergency : Melville and the "voice of silence" -- Herman Melville's Israel Potter : reflections on a damaged life -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling. …”
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The exceptionalist state and the state of exception : Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor / by Spanos, William V.

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The exceptionalist state and the state of exception : Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor / by Spanos, William V.

A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Richards -- Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle -- Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling -- American exceptionalism and the secular turn -- The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics -- Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11 -- Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners -- The calling and the question of the secular -- Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution -- In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. …”

A William V. Spanos reader : humanist criticism and the secular imperative / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Richards -- Culture and colonization : the imperial imperatives of the centered circle -- Heidegger, Foucault, and the "empire of the gaze" : thinking the territorialization of knowledge -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling -- American exceptionalism and the secular turn -- The question of philosophy and poiesis in the post-historical age : thinking/imagining the shadow of metaphysics -- Edward Said's humanism and American exceptionalism : an interrogation after 9/11 -- Herman Melville's Pierre; or, the ambiguities and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park : the imperial violence of the novel of manners -- The calling and the question of the secular -- Arab Spring, 2011 : a symptomatic reading of the revolution -- In lieu of a conclusion: a discussion between William V. …”
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