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9780810139732: Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
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ISBN 10 : 0810139731 ISBN 13 : 9780810139732
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville's writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture.

The volume thus engages not only Melville-reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica Uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville's afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics. 

Handsomely Done presents readers with a Melville who is a philologist and even a cinematographer, but also a potent political thinker, a thinker of capital and credit as well as of resistance, insubordination, and escape.

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À propos de l'auteur

DANIEL HOFFMAN-SCHWARTZ is a lecturer in comparative literature at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810139731
ISBN 13 
9780810139732
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Éditeur
Hoffman-Schwartz Daniel
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