| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) |
| Contents |
A great intellect in repose -- America's repose -- The example of Irving -- Playing along : American and the rhetoric of deceit -- E.A. Poe and T.B. Thorpe : two models for deceit -- The genial misanthrope : Melville and the cosmopolitan ideal -- The anxieties of humor -- Typee in manuscript -- Tommo's rhetoric of deceit -- Ishmael : sounding the repose of If -- Ahab : personifying the impersonal -- Melville's comedy of doubt -- Comic debates : the use of cosmopolite |
| Summary |
Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of humour in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of humour in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of humour as the shaping force of Melville's narrative voice for the duration of his literary career. Bryant argues that Melville fused a "rhetoric of geniality" adopted from the British with a "rhetoric of deceit" borrowed from the American tall tale in order to create his own amiably cosmopolitan "rhetoric of aesthetic repose." Thorough research, an engaging style, and full, scholarly readings of the oeuvre combine to make this book a welcome addition to the libraries of Melville scholars and enthusiasts |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Humor
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| SUBJECT |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. fast (OCoLC)fst00030216 |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism
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English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Humorous stories, American.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Humor (grappigheden)
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Humor.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
142940762X |
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9781429407625 |
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1280526394 |
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9781280526398 |
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