Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville
Contributor(s): Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel (Editor), Radu Cucu, Sorin (Contribution by), Vegso, Roland (Contribution by)

View larger image

 ISBN: 0810139731     ISBN-13: 9780810139732
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
OUR PRICE: $36.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2019
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
Dewey: 813.3
LCCN: 2018049312
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.80 lbs) 264 pages
Features: Index, Price on Product
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
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.

 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!