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Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power

English

By (author): Eyal Peretz

This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought: recent theories of power, as articulated by Foucault, Deleuze, Butler, and Agamben; theories of trauma and testimony developed by Felman and Caruth; the new thinking of ethics, articulated by Levinas and Derrida; and the new thinking of history developed by New Historicism. All four, the author argues, participate in a groundbreaking new elaboration of the concept of disaster. Moby-Dick's privilege, the author claims, anticipates this new thinking of the disaster and shows that it demands simultaneously a new thinking of the literary. Read from this perspective, Melville's novel can both be illuminated by these recent theoretical developments and, in turn, illuminate them, adding new and complex dimensions to their findings.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 249g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Feb 2013
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780804787093

About Eyal Peretz

Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses (2007).

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