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Melville and the Question of Meaning (Hardcover)
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Melville and the Question of Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal
point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman
Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about
thinking in Melville. For if Melville's concerns with
interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously
read the author for "the 'meaning' of the characters," the
"meaning" of the "body," "recesses of meaning," "deepest levels of
meaning," "double meaning," and the "meaning" of "being" and
"everything else") overlap with our own concerns, at a cultural
moment when meaning feels especially strained, we have lost sight
of the central place of meaning making in Melville's work. My own
readings in Melville are a pedestrian's guide through the
self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville
across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining
aesthetics and sociolinguistics, history and theory, rhetoric and
politics, philosophy and film studies, Melville and the Question of
Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville
remains as vital as ever.
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