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Melville and the Question of Meaning

Melville and the Question of Meaning

Faflik, David

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Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0367593467
ISBN13: 9780367593469
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 154
Language: English

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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