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Melville and Repose - The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Melville and Repose - The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (Hardcover)
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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 Melville fused a "rhetoric of geniality" and "picturesque
sensibility" 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 into American culture and recent Melville manuscript
findings, an engaging style, and full, scholarly readings combine
to make this historicist study a welcome addition to the libraries
of Americanists and Melville scholars and enthusiasts.
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