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 Free Download The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies By William V. Spanos 1995 | 393 Pages | ISBN: 0822315998 | PDF | 25 MB In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication-William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that was codified in the canon established by "Old Americanist" critics from F. O. Matthiessen to Lionel Trilling. But Spanos also shows, with the novel still as his focus, the limitations of this "New Americanist" discourse and its failure to escape the totalizing imperial perspective it finds in its predecessor.Combining Heideggerian ontology with a sociopolitical perspective derived primarily from Foucault, the reading of Moby-Dick that forms the center of this book demonstrates that the traditional identification of Melville's novel as a "romance" renders it complicitous in the discourse of the Cold War. At the same time, Spanos shows how New Americanist criticism overlooks the degree to which Moby-Dick anticipates not only America's self-representation as the savior of the world against communism, but also the emergent postmodern and anti-imperial discourse deployed against such an image. Spanos's critique reveals the extraordinary relevance of Melville's novel as a post-Cold War text, foreshadowing not only the self-destructive end of the historical formation of the American cultural identity in the genocidal assault on Vietnam, but also the reactionary labeling of the current era as "the end of history."This provocative and challenging study presents not only a new view of the development of literary history in the United States, but a devastating critique of the genealogy of ideology in the American cultural establishment.  Free Download John Bryant, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Timothy Marr, "Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick" English | 2006 | pages: 373 | ISBN: 0873388607, 1606350684 | EPUB | 1,5 mb This is a collection of 21 essays from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'Moby Dick'. The essays reflect a range of problems and approaches, and offer different thoughts on topics, such as the novel's problematic structure.  Free Download Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" English | 2009 | pages: 48 | ISBN: 1976862620, 1989631649 | EPUB | 1,4 mb On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, it is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale-Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. 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Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick's body of work.  Free Download David Sandner, "Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now " English | ISBN: 1476677891 | 2020 | 226 pages | PDF | 18 MB Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick's writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was only after his death that he gained popular and critical recognition. In this new collection of essays, interviews, and talks, Philip K Dick is rediscovered. Concentrating both on recent critical studies and on reassessing his legacy in light of his new status as a "major American author," these essays explore, just what happened culturally and critically to precipitate his extraordinary rise in reputation. The essays look for his traces in the places he lived, in the SF community he came from, and in his influence on contemporary American literature and culture, and beyond.  Philip K. Dick, Paul Williams , "The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1973-1974" English | 1991 | ISBN: 0887331041 | 352 pages | PDF | 11.4 MB Letters by the influential science fiction writer to relatives, agents, and fellow authors reveal his outlook on life and his fiction |
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