By Robert T. Tally
Drawing at the paintings of various literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville’s particular literary shape enabled his critique of the dominant nationwide narrative of his personal time and proleptically undermined the nationwide literary culture of yankee stories a century later. Melville’s hypercanonical prestige within the usa makes his paintings the entire extra the most important for figuring out the position of literature in a post-American epoch.
Offering daring new interpretations and theoretical juxtapositions, Tally provides a postnational Melville, like minded to constructing new techniques to American and international literature within the twenty-first century.
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