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Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville
Peter Szendy
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Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading is and what reading does.
With Melville, Prophecies of Leviathan argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies (Ishmael seems to foretell a "Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States" followed by a "bloody battle in Afghanistan") but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a unique way.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823231546
SKU
V9780823231546
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About Peter Szendy
Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: ... Read more
Reviews for Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville
"Szendy uses a dialogical form of criticism to argue that Moby Dick should be read as a prophetic text; the prophecy of an unspeakable catastrophe turns into the experience of writing from the 'outside.' It is the proximity with such an 'outside' that frees Meville's text from its crust of ancient glosses and multiplies amazingly original close readings."
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