1st Edition
Menetekel The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom
Introduction; Chapter 1 – Eight Ways of Seeing: Ishmael’s Mood-Driven Interpretive Theory; Chapter 2 – The Pawnee Buttes: Narratives of Disappearance in the Pawnee, Sioux, and Explorer-Settler-Colonial Imaginations; Chapter 3 – The Literate Vandal: Menetekel in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Epitaph
Biography
Todd Tyner Cronkhite teaches literature and writing at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado. He received his PhD in American Literature from the University of New Mexico in 2023. His research focuses on semiotics, literary theory, mythology, religion, and nineteenth-century American literature, particularly the ways cultures interpret signs of impending catastrophe. He also holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado and an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in literary journals, and he has presented scholarly work on language, public discourse, and literary interpretation.
