The exceptionalist state and the state of exception
Subtitle: Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor
By: William V. Spanos
Series: Rethinking theory
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780801898495
Subjects: History; Literature and history; National characteristics, American, in literature; Political and social views; United States; Imperialism in literature; Exceptionalism; Knowledge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The late Melville and his historical occasion: prolegomenon to a re-reading of Billy Budd, sailor; title: The criticism of Billy Budd, sailor: a counter-history; title: Billy Budd: a symptomatic reading; title: American exceptionalism and the state of exception after 9/11/01: Melville's proleptic witness.