Title: Melville's thematics of form : the great art of telling the truth /
Authors: Dryden, Edgar A.
Year: 2019
Subjects: Melville, Herman, Technique.; Melville, Herman,; Literary form History; Literary form; Technique
Contents: 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.