Melville and repose : the rhetoric of humor in the American Renaissance /

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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 acco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bryant, John, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Humor.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Humorous stories, American > History and criticism.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Comic, The, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Récits humoristiques américains > Histoire et critique.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
Comique dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
English language > Rhetoric.
Humorous stories, American.
Humor (grappigheden)
United States.
English fiction
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Humor.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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