“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale”
This essay performs a haptic reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Following Ishmael’s way of “squeezing cases” and touching upon epistemological issues, it explores how Melville’s fiction dramatizes the affective, epistemological, and literary capabilities of touc...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/22074 |
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