Prophecies of Leviathan Reading Past Melville
- New York Fordham University Press 2010
- 152p
includes index and biblioraphy
Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading past Melville The Double Enclosure ..............3 I .................6 The event, or reading without heading ...........10 The aura of the weather............14 Before sight, the Voice..........15 Outside-inside......17 Naming and Meteoromancy..........19 Prosthesis and prophecy ..............23 Retroprospection ..........29 Deluge and Delirium ...........31 Leaks .............36 Leviathan is the text ...............40 The fire, the bonds .........48 Lost at sea ..........51 The laws of fishing and of Reading ...........53 In detachment ..............56 Return to sender ..............61 Through the tomb.........67 Spectral Evidence ..............70 Back fire ............75