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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface: “To Fight Some Other World”
Introduction: Renderings of the Whale
Constructing Moby-Dick: Breakdown and Redemption
Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened: The Astman Distinguished Lecture
“Ungainly Gambols” and Circumnavigating the Truth: Breaking the Narrative of Moby-Dick
“Chiefly Known by His Rod”: The Book of Jonah, Mapple’s Sermon, and Scapegoating
Man, Mind, Whale
Filling the Void: A Lacanian Angle of Vision on Moby-Dick
Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Depressive Mind: Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask as Symbolic Charaters
Correspondences: Paranoiac Lexicographers and Melvillean Heroes
Moby-Dick and Law
“Deadly Voids and Unbidden Infidelities”: Death, Memory, and Law in Moby-Dick
“I Stand Alone Here upon an Open Sea”: Starbuck and the Limits of Positive Law
Reading and Mapping
Morality and Rhetoric in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick’s Lessons: or How Reading Might Save One’s Life
Mapping and Measurement in Moby-Dick
Flood-Gates of the Wonder World: Race and the Americas
“In This Simple Savage Old Rules Would Not Apply”: Cetology and the Subject of Race in Moby-Dick
“Kings of the Upside-Down World”: Challenging White Hegemony in Moby-Dick
“So Spanishly Poetic”: Moby-Dick’s Doubloon and Latin America
Dreaming a Dream of Interracial Bonds: From Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick
Very Like a Whale: Moby-Dick in Translation
“There’s another rendering now”: On Translating Moby-Dick into German
The Brazilian Whale
Modern Breachings: Moby-Dick on Stage and Web
Leviathanic Revelations: Laurie Anderson’s, Rinde Eckert’s, and John Barrymore’s Moby Dicks
Feminizing Moby-Dick: Contemporary Women Perform the Whale
Fusing with the Muse: Eckert’s Great Whales as Homage and Prophecy
“Lying in Various Attitudes”: Staging Melville’s Pip in Digital Media
General Works Cited
Index
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