Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies 9780822315841

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Автор: William V. Spanos
Название: Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies
ISBN: 9780822315841
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 082231584X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 392
Вес: 0.91 кг.
Дата издания: 1995-06-30
Серия: New americanists
Язык: English
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Подзаголовок: The canon, the cold war, and the struggle for american studies
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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Americanist" critics from F. O. Matthiessen to Lionel Trilling. But Spanos also shows, with the novel still as his focus, the limitations of this "New Americanist" discourse and its failure to escape the totalizing imperial perspective it finds in its predecessor.
Combining Heideggerian ontology with a sociopolitical perspective derived primarily from Foucault, the reading of Moby-Dick that forms the center of this book demonstrates that the traditional identification of Melville’s novel as a "romance" renders it complicitous in the discourse of the Cold War. At the same time, Spanos shows how New Americanist criticism overlooks the degree to which Moby-Dick anticipates not only America’s self-representation as the savior of the world against communism, but also the emergent postmodern and anti-imperial discourse deployed against such an image. Spanos’s critique reveals the extraordinary relevance of Melville’s novel as a post-Cold War text, foreshadowing not only the self-destructive end of the historical formation of the American cultural identity in the genocidal assault on Vietnam, but also the reactionary labeling of the current era as "the end of history."
This provocative and challenging study presents not only a new view of the development of literary history in the United States, but a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment.

Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies, William V. Spanos