"Ahab Unbound advances an urgent inquiry into Melville's emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. It makes a case for the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville's work"--
"Ahab Unbound advances an urgent inquiry into Melville's emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. It makes a case for the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville's work"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Meredith Farmer is assistant teaching professor in English and the Environmental Program at Wake Forest University. She is author of the forthcoming book Melville’s Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons. Jonathan D. S. Schroeder is visiting assistant professor of American studies at Brandeis University.
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Contents Acknowledgments Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer Part I. Ontologies 1. Sailing without Ahab Steve Mentz 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales Branka Arsi¿ 3. Ahab after Agency Mark D. Noble 4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism Christian P. Haines Part II. Relations 5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese 6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain Michael D. Snediker 7.‘The King is a Thing’; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading Russell Sbriglia 8. Approaching Ahab Blind Christopher Castiglia Part III. Politics 9. ‘this post-mortemizing of the whale’: The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old Bonnie Honig 10.Ahab’s Electromagnetic Constitution Donald E. Pease 11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania Jonathan D. S. Schroeder 12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason Jonathan Lamb Part IV. New Melvilles 13. Ahab’s After-Life: The Tortoises of ‘The Encantadas’ Matthew A. Taylor 14. Israel Potter; or, the Excrescence Colin Dayan 15.Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor Ivy Wilson 16. Melville’s Basement Tapes John Modern Afterword: Melville Among the Materialists Samuel Otter Acknowledgments Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer Part I. Ontologies 1. Sailing without Ahab Steve Mentz 2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales Branka Arsi¿ 3. Ahab after Agency Mark D. Noble 4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism Christian P. Haines Part II. Relations 5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese 6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain Michael D. Snediker 7.‘The King is a Thing’; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading Russell Sbriglia 8. Approaching Ahab Blind Christopher Castiglia Part III. Politics 9. ‘this post-mortemizing of the whale’: The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old Bonnie Honig 10.Ahab’s Electromagnetic Constitution Donald E. Pease 11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania Jonathan D. S. Schroeder 12. Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason Jonathan Lamb Part IV. New Melvilles 13. Ahab’s After-Life: The Tortoises of ‘The Encantadas’ Matthew A. Taylor 14. Israel Potter; or, the Excrescence Colin Dayan 15.Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor Ivy Wilson 16. Melville’s Basement Tapes John Modern Afterword: Melville Among the Materialists Samuel Otter Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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