Melville's Thematics of Form The Great Art of Telling the Truth

• Главный автор: Dryden, Edgar (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Предметы: Literature: history & criticism
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Originally published in 1968. Professor Dryden sees Melville's novels both as metaphysical processes and as technical forms. The novelist is not a reporter but a creator, and what he creates from his experience is his vision of truth. Herman Melville saw the function of the novelist in terms of...