{"product_id":"the-melville-effect-a-literary-afterlife-across-the-arts-paperback","title":"The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Boone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraces of Herman Melville are everywhere. Works directly or loosely inspired by the nineteenth-century writer abound, from adaptations and artistic experiments to parodies and cheeky references. They are as distinct as Sena Jeter Naslund's novel \u003ci\u003eAhab's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, Laurie Anderson's mixed-media spectacle \u003ci\u003eSongs and Stories from Moby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Maurice Sendak's queer illustrations of \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e, and the collaborative \u003ci\u003eEmoji Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. Melville turns up in opera, concrete poetry, auteur cinema, monumental murals, and sperm whale-sized sculptures. Why are so many artists drawn to Melville? What does his continuing presence say about contemporary culture? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies. He argues that contemporary artists are drawn to Melville's patchwork aesthetics, especially his mingling of genres and media and his prolific borrowings from popular and high culture. Boone's cases range from artists drawing on the use of whalebone in nineteenth-century fashion to critique gender roles to those obsessed, like Melville, with size and monumentality in ever-proliferating artworks. Other contemporary artists find Melville's environmental themes strikingly prescient, turning to his work to examine waste, extinction, and planetary crisis. Tracing a once nearly forgotten author's improbable contemporaneity, \u003ci\u003e The Melville Effect \u003c\/i\u003esheds light on how artists turn to literary pasts to make sense of the present and create art for the future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Allen Boone is professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern California. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Homoerotics of Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2014), the novel \u003ci\u003eFurnace Creek\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and the story collection \u003ci\u003eConditions of Precarity\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336973050221,"sku":"9780231222204","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/SWpFdYk6JB9780231222204.webp?v=1778922798","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/the-melville-effect-a-literary-afterlife-across-the-arts-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}