Melville's thematics of form : the great art of telling the truth /
Dryden, Edgar A.,author.
Facsimile reprint of an edition originally published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 1968 and reissued in paperback in 1981.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Literary form
Literary form.
Technique.