Melville and Repose : The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance
by
John Bryant
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195077822
ISBN-13
9780195077827
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 16th, 1993
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
611 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Bryant's book is a strong, significant argument for the centrality of humour in Melville's novelistic career. Thorough research and full, scholarly readings of the oeuvre combine to make this book a welcome addition to the libraries of Melville scholars and enthusiasts.
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.
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