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LEADER: 01822cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2002012995
003 DLC
005 20140923120430.0
008 020815s2003 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002012995
020 $a0804746141 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS2384.M62$bP47 2003
082 00 $a813/.3$221
100 1 $aPeretz, Eyal,$d1968-
245 10 $aLiterature, disaster and the enigma of power :$ba reading of 'Moby-Dick' /$cEyal Peretz.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2003.
300 $a176 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction I -- From Judgment to Power, 3 -- America-A Witnessing of Europe, 19 --1 The Enigma of Power 27 --2 Call Me Ishmael 35 -- Leviathanalysis, 46 --3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound 48 -- Language as Hunt; Language as Wail, 54 --4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author 67 -- The Power of Whiteness, 68 -- Two Understandings of the Fabulous, 86 -- Moby-Dick and Literary History, 90 -- Ishmael: Whale-Author(ity), 98 -- Coda, 118.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891.$tMoby Dick.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aSea stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
650 0 $aWhaling in literature.
650 0 $aWhales in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/2002012995.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2002012995-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2002012995-d.html