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Author: Branka Arsić
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.652kg
ISBN: 9781517920869
ISBN 10: 1517920868
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 16 June 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Ambient Life is one of the most important pieces of scholarship on Melville to appear in many, many years, and its insights are revelatory. With a distinctively lucid and engaging voice, Branka Arsic radically and elegantly rethinks Melville's philosophical project, fundamentally refreshing the study of the author. Cobwebs of thought are swept away, windows are opened, the intellectual air clears. This is a book full of marvels.""--Lloyd Pratt, author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature ""Ambient Life is a monumental reading of Melville that reveals him as one of the most radical and far-reaching thinkers about our relation to our surroundings and our place in the world. Branka Arsic remains one of our most precious resources for magically transformative thinking, and this is one of those rare books that enhances our wonder so that we might inhabit this newly reconfigured world in more tender and capacious ways.""--Eduardo Cadava, coauthor of Politically Red
""Ambient Life is one of the most important pieces of scholarship on Melville to appear in many, many years, and its insights are revelatory. With a distinctively lucid and engaging voice, Branka Arsic radically and elegantly rethinks Melville's philosophical project, fundamentally refreshing the study of the author. This is a book of marvels.""--Lloyd Pratt, author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature ""Ambient Life is a monumental reading of Melville that reveals him as one of the most radical and far-reaching thinkers about our relation to our surroundings and our place in the world. Branka Arsic remains one of our most precious resources for magically transformative thinking, and this is one of those rare books that enhances our wonder so that we might inhabit this newly reconfigured world in more tender and capacious ways.""--Eduardo Cadava, coauthor of Politically Red
Author Information
Branka Arsi is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is coeditor, with Cary Wolfe, of The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (Minnesota, 2010) and author of several books, including Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau and On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson.
