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Herman Melville and the American Calling
William V. Spanos
其他書名
The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857
出版State University of New York Press, 2008-08-21
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
ISBN07914777469780791477748
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r2erIp_MMocC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick. In contrast to prior readings of this fiction, William V. Spanos's interpretation takes as its point of departure the theme of spectrality precipitated by the metaphor of orphanage—disaffiliation from the symbolic fatherland, on the one hand, and the myth of American exceptionalism on the other—that emerged as an abiding motif in Melville's creative imagination. This book voices an original argument about Melville's status as an "American" writer, and foregrounds Melville's remarkable anticipation and critique of the exceptionalism that continues to drive American policy in the post-9/11 era.