{"product_id":"literature-disaster-and-the-enigma-of-power-a-reading-of-moby-dick-9780804787093","title":"Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick'","description":"This powerful new reading of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It takes account of four trends in innovative critical thought: recent theories of power, as articulated by Foucault, Deleuze, Butler, and Agamben; theories of trauma and testimony developed by Felman and Caruth; the new thinking of ethics, articulated by Levinas and Derrida; and the new thinking of history developed by New Historicism. All four, the author argues, participate in a groundbreaking new elaboration of the concept of disaster. \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick's\u003c\/i\u003e privilege, the author claims, anticipates this new thinking of the disaster and shows that it demands simultaneously a new thinking of the literary. Read from this perspective, Melville's novel can both be illuminated by these recent theoretical developments and, in turn, illuminate them, adding new and complex dimensions to their findings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eyal Peretz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804787093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEyal Peretz is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40146707873907,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ea47675c-84c9-4609-94ca-7aa7eb33fb8b.jpg?v=1654695809","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/literature-disaster-and-the-enigma-of-power-a-reading-of-moby-dick-9780804787093","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}