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Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance
Melville and Repose The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance
Author: John Bryant
John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of humor 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 Melv...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195077827
ISBN-10: 0195077822
Publication Date: 9/11/1993
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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