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| Genre/Form: | Humor |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Bryant |
| ISBN: | 0195077822 9780195077827 |
| OCLC Number: | 27187068 |
| Description: | xviii, 312 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources -- A Great Intellect in Repose -- Humor and Being -- Melville's Aesthetics of Repose -- Melville's Rhetoric: Voicing the Voiceless -- Melville and the Reader: "Lord when shall we be done changing?," -- America's Comic Debate -- America's Repose -- Britain's Amiable Tradition -- Amiability on Native Ground -- The Example of Irving -- Irving's Comic Debate -- Salmagundi and Some Versions of the Bachelor -- A Rip in the Canvas: Irving's Picturesque -- Irving's Goldsmith and the Rhetoric of Geniality -- Playing Along: America and the Rhetoric of Deceit -- The Deep Thought of Laughter -- A Veracious History of Lying -- The Lie of our Land: Forms of Comic Lying -- E.A. Poe and T.B. Thorpe: Two Models of Deceit -- Poe's Humor -- Thorpe's Big Bear -- The Genial Misanthrope: Melville and The Cosmopolitan Ideal -- Melville's Cosmopolite -- Europe's Cosmopolite: "At Home in Every Place," -- America's Con Man Cosmopolite: "Nowhere a Stranger," -- Herman Melville: "Diogenes Masquerading as a Cosmopolitan," -- Rhetoric And Repose -- Typee -- The Anxieties of Humor -- Reliability and the Amiable Rebel -- Tommo's Picturesque -- Tommo's Amiable Eden -- Typee in Manuscript -- Drama and Restraint -- Finding Voice: Transcription, Transformation, and Translation -- Forging Ideology: Melville and "Little Henry," -- Tommo's Rhetoric of Deceit -- Tattoo, Taboo, and Cannibalism: Forms of Conversion -- Tommo Prometheus -- Baffled Scientist and Con Man Revivalist -- Rover and Cosmopolite -- Moby Dick. |
| Responsibility: | John Bryant. |
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- Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Humor.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism.
- English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
- Comic, The, in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891.
- Humor (grappigheden)
- Melville, Herman.
- Rhetorik.
- Humor.
- English fiction
- United States
