...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...

... of anti‐Blackness, including police brutality, disproportionate Black incarceration, and systemic inequalities, but also because, as Jemima Pierre argues, Africa is often perceived as “ the site of racial otherness,” making engagements with racialization in Africa appear redundant. This paper considers...

... throughout its existence (and to the signs, the indexes, within the work and outside it, that signal those relations). Proust's novel, along with the work of M. M. Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Silverstein, and others, suggests ways of thinking about how meaning unfolds, develops, happens in time around...

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... seduction novels “imagine a way for distinction to be vis- ible in a democracy without resorting to artificial forms of aristocracy” (166). The book concludes with a reading of Pierre (1852) as a structural critique of the physi- ognomic fallacy, which Melville argues sets up a false opposition...

... significantly, insofar as the modern notion tends to place the emphasis on traits unique to or distinctive of an individual. Ancient literature, it has been argued, was concerned not with psychologically real individuals but with roles or functions; as Pierre Vidal-Naquet observes of the protagonist...

... of her sympathies by asserting their foundation in facts” (94) end the debate that her fictional evocation of those facts has engendered? Weinstein is at her best when she turns to Melville, whose David Lynch–like rendition of sentimentalism in Pierre has, at least in the last hundred years...

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... thinking of Jorge Luis Borges, and in particular his 1939 story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ,” which describes the achievement of a writer who sets out not to copy Don Quixote but “to produce a few pages which would coincide—word for word and line for line—with those of Miguel de Cervantes...

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... the logical outcome of these altered states and material practices—the modernist novel Ulysses, and, more specifically, Molly’s closing monologue. In support, I rely on Pierre Bourdieu’s treatment of disciplinary embodiment in The Logic of Practice in which he asserts that “[s]ocial disciplines take...

... and Herman Melville’s Pierre, to which I will return later. These chapters are especially effective at exploring how both black and white American writers struggled with the new American subjectivity in their attempts to imagine the possibilities for social transformation or, as Castiglia puts...

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