...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 1 William V. Spanos Anxiety reveals the nothing. —Martin Heidegger, ‘‘What Is Metaphysics...

...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2001 Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 2 William V. Spanos Silence permeates all things, and produced its magical power, as well during...

... works with works from more recent postcolonial nations. Imperial eclecticism names the technique by which writers in a new national culture freely manipulate the materials of the larger “world” cultural heritage as a resource for innovation, as Melville does with Shakespeare and Ellison does with Dante...

...: C. L. R. James’s Readings of Moby Dick and Othello 1 He represents the essay as, in part, an effort to redress the failure of Melville scholars to acknowledge the significance to their archive of James’s Marin- ers, Renegades...

... project with comparably problematic legacies—Jean-­ ­Paul Sartre’s, Martin Heidegger’s, Herman Melville’s, America’s, Edward Said’s. The question of legacy has factored in all ten books Spanos has published over the past twenty years as either a backdrop (in End Of Education: Toward Post- humanism...

... and Washington Irving have fifteen pages each, while the greatly admired William Cullen Bryant has eighteen. Melville is covered in four pages (romances of the sea) in a chapter in which William Gilmore Simms has six, and where he comes between accounts of the work of William Starbuck Mayo...

... to my Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). I would like to thank the dear friends who read and commented on earlier drafts of this essay, Richard Dienst, Michael Hardt, Eleanor Kaufman, Saree Makdisi, John Mowitt, and Ross...

... are its borders? Wai Chee Dimock has shown, in texts from Herman Melville to Ishmael Reed, that American literature often extends its frame of reference across time, to earlier texts and cultures, and over the globe, to other countries and peoples. In her book Through Other Continents: American...

... to the confidence-man], both for them and everybody, that whoever had the true light should stick behind the secure Malakoff of confidence, nor be tempted forth to hazardous skirmishes on the open ground of reason. —Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man In his policy...

... of Edward W. Said (2009), and Herman Melville and Contributors  245 the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851–1857 (2009). Two books are forthcoming: In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir (Univer- sity...

... the ’90s a big change had taken place: Manhattan was almost, once again, the brightly lit riverboat she’d been in the early twentieth century, and her crowds looked like nothing so much as the passengers on the Mississippi steamer the Fidèle in Melville’s novel The Confidence Man. From Tribeca, Soho...

...-free­ space of the university” (EE, 166). He argues, however, that the protest movement 31. See, for example, Donald E. Pease, “New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon,” boundary 2 17, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 1–37; and the discussion of the canon- ization of Herman Melville’s...

... Melville and the World We Live In. Like Auerbach’s take on Dante, James offers a vision of Melville’s novel in which the historically particular holds a potential that finds its fulfillment not in a futuretocome, but in a universal space that occupies an eternal present. In his analysis, James...

... and discourses that have come to constitute the archives of culture. Whether Spanos writes about Herman Melville’s work, the literature of the Vietnam War, Heideg- ger’s thought, Said’s work, or Hannah Arendt’s philosophy—to­ mention a few illuminating examples of his work—­he voices, represents...

... (Madison: Uni- versity of Wisconsin Press, 1987); Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction: 1790–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); David S. Rey- nolds, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (New...

... the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle, naught’s an angle to the iron way! —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ‘‘Kill Nam said...

.... Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Iversen, Margaret, and Stephen Melville. Writing Art History: Disciplinary Depar- tures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Jacob, Wilson Chacko. Working Out Egypt...

... that Twain’s novel, “despite its patent flaws . . . sheds more light on the United States’ contemporary global occasion than any other novel in the American canon, with the exception of Herman Melville’s fiction” (SA, 25). It displays the pernicious effects of American exceptionalism in its culminating...

..., Race, and the Technology of Identity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Manovich Lev . 2001 . The Language of New Media . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Melville Herman . 1985 . “Bartleby the Scrivener.” In Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories , edited by Beaver...

... Chee Dimock and Law- rence Buell (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 19–38. 4. Jonathan Arac, “Preface to the Morningside Edition,” in Commissioned Spirits: Shap- ing of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne (1979; repr. with a new preface, New York: Columbia...