Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies最新文献

{"title":"Profiles in Ontological Rebellion: The Presence of Moby-Dick in Heathers","authors":"Randy Laist","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01363.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01363.x","url":null,"abstract":"I t is common internet knowledge that Daniel Waters, screenwriter for the indie cult classic Heathers (1989),1 about a disaffected high school girl whose ennui gradually evolves into mass murder, had originally intended to use Catcher in the Rye as the principal literary motif in the movie, but could not because of the famous copyright taboos that envelope J. D. Salinger’s writings. Thus thwarted, he turned to that other omnipresent article of the high school object-scape, Moby-Dick. However, nothing about this choice seems arbitrary or unfortunate. It is difficult to imagine Holden Caulfield’s voice poking into Heathers. Holden’s rhetoric is too personal, too humanly resonant and vulnerable, to reflect the operatic, archetypal cartoonishness crammed into this movie. Holden’s voice in Heathers would emit an aura of real worldliness and an echo of real shootings that would unbalance the knife-edge tone of rampant zaniness that the movie achieves. But Moby-Dick is perfect. On the one hand, Melville’s world is full the same blend of strutting satirical types, rhetorical indulgence, manic pathos, cryptic wisdom, and panoramic inclusiveness that characterizes the movie. And on a second hand there is Moby-Dick’s status, even and perhaps especially for those who have never read it and never will, as the Archetypal American Novel. The namedropping, in collusion with the allegorical fairy-tale sheen of the filmmaking, elevates the plane of discourse the movie engages. Furthermore, Heathers goes backwards and rewrites Moby-Dick as a rock video, a zany jaunt into the heartland of the American apocalyptic wet dream. Conversely, something of Melville’s profound moral vision trickles into Heathers, complicating its conventional Hollywood ending. Heathers is a black satire of John Hughes-style high school movies which de-sentimentalizes the cliche of “teen angst bullshit.” Veronica Sawyer is the fourth member of a coven of merciless bitches (the rest of them all named Heather) who tyrannize their school’s loose assortment of nerds, jocks, stoners,","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"72-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01363.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88564829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Pierre, Social Reform, and the Agony of Moral Perfection”","authors":"Christopher Freeburg","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_3.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_3.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_3.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73346270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heavy Melville: Mastodon's Leviathan and the Popular Image of Moby-Dick","authors":"Craig Bernardini","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01192.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01192.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"27-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01192.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88101555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Herman Melville as “Hip” Icon for the Beat Generation","authors":"Mark Dunphy","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01215.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01215.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"92-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01215.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87073098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanity","authors":"Ted Richer","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2008.01333.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2008.01333.x","url":null,"abstract":" Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament. Ed. Kent Brower and Andy Johnson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.  1 and 2 Thessalonians. In the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.  Holiness and the Missio Dei. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016.  Cruciform Scripture: Cross, Participation, and Mission. Ed. Christopher W. Skinner, Nijay K. Gupta, Andy Johnson, Drew J. Strait. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021.","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2008.01333.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73072694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Melville and the Ends of Philosophy","authors":"Maurice Lee","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_1.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_1.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"118"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_1.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77623614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wyn Kelley, A Companion to Herman Melville","authors":"Timothy Marr","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01378.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01378.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"106-114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01378.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80295743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“He's Going to Sound”: Radio Adaptations of Melville's Works and the Waves between Highbrow and Popular Cultures","authors":"Tim Prchal","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01214.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01214.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"45-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01214.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74875227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"All Astir","authors":"Wyn Kelley","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01388.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01388.x","url":null,"abstract":"Melville came into the news last fall, in an unexpected way. Bartleby became the patron saint of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. At least that was the proposal in the headline of a blog posting on the website of The New Republic, written by Nina Martyris, dated October 15, 2011, a month after protests began at Zuccotti Park in the city’s financial district (two blocks from Melville’s childhood home at 55 Cortlandt Street). Martyris invoked Melville’s scrivener as an icon of civil disobedience and pointed to the story’s critique of a Wall Street ethos and to the resonance of Bartleby’s refusal to consent to a destructive system although she noted the differences between the character’s objectless resistance and the political aims of the OWS protestors. According to postings on the Occupy Wall Street Library site, Bartleby “was declared the patron saint of the OccupyRefuseniks” in late September and the story “was read in three camps simultaneously for five days straight.” On November 10, a public reading of the story took place at 60 Wall Street, heralding the original Putnam’s Magazine title: “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.” The flyer emblazoned the words “I WOULD PREFER NOT TO” in large type. (One blogger referred to the reading as “the nerdiest protest ever.”) Zach, the librarian at OWS, was photographed wearing an “I Would Prefer Not To” T-shirt. On November 6, the editorial page of The Oklahoman used Melville’s story to satirize the OWS protestors for what the editors considered their Bartleby-like eccentricity and imprecision. In late October and November, essays appeared on the web by Michelle Hardesty, Hannah Gersen, NoahType, DocHoc, Austin Allen, Robin Bates, Molly McArdle, and Lauren Klein, debating Bartleby’s negative refrain, the qualities of the lawyer-narrator’s response, and OWS’s protest against capitalism’s inequities but refusal to provide a conventional agenda. In a more abstract register, these essays and the responses to them evaluated the reach and limit of analogies and the relationships between nineteenth-century literature and early-twenty-first century politics. Melville’s solitary, taciturn copyist, given form in a story whose economic critique and philosophical inquiry do not rest comfortably together, has generated yet another line of relation, this time asking readers to consider the varieties of refusal and the affirmation of a non-predicate in reference to a movement that refuses to move. Discussion will continue at the 2013 MLA Convention in Boston (January 3–6) with Melville Society panels organized by","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01388.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80873815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“(Im)Possible Gifts in Herman Melville's Typee and The Confidence-Man”","authors":"Hildegard Hoeller","doi":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_4.x","DOIUrl":"10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_4.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42245,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan-A Journal of Melville Studies","volume":"11 3","pages":"119-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2009-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01380_4.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72535714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}