Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance
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John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of the comic as the shaping force of Melville's narrative voice throughout the major phase of his literary career. Bryant argues that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195077822
ISBN13:9780195077827
Release Date:October 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
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