American Literary EssaysLewis Gaston Leary Crowell, 1960 - 318 páginas |
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... Melville was a sport , and unique , and perhaps that is the right thing to say ; but it would be more useful if we were able to say that Melville's lack of influence at least partly arose from a series of technical defects in persuasive ...
... Melville was a sport , and unique , and perhaps that is the right thing to say ; but it would be more useful if we were able to say that Melville's lack of influence at least partly arose from a series of technical defects in persuasive ...
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... Melville's text alone , and insist merely that as an artist Melville misunderstood the import of his own words . The " universal lurking insincerity " he spoke of , is just the most fascinating aspect of the face of dra- matic truth ...
... Melville's text alone , and insist merely that as an artist Melville misunderstood the import of his own words . The " universal lurking insincerity " he spoke of , is just the most fascinating aspect of the face of dra- matic truth ...
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... Melville made about Ahab . Many directly named him ; many more , like this one , were purely indirect and putative in character . Ahab is not mentioned , but the reader who remem- bers the passage will know that it was he who was meant ...
... Melville made about Ahab . Many directly named him ; many more , like this one , were purely indirect and putative in character . Ahab is not mentioned , but the reader who remem- bers the passage will know that it was he who was meant ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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Allen Tate Amer American appeared artist beauty become called character consciousness conventional Cooper criticism culture Deerslayer E. B. White effect Emerson Emily Dickinson emotion England English essay experience expression eyes fact feel fiction genius give H. L. Mencken Hawthorne heart Henry James human ican ideal ideas images imagination intellectual interest jazz Karl Shapiro kind language Leaves of Grass less literary literature live look Lowell Mark Twain matter means Melville ment mind Moby Dick moral nature ness never novel novelist Parrington passion perhaps Pierre poem poet poetic poetry political present prose R. P. Blackmur reader reality romance scholar seems sense social society soul speak spirit stand story T. S. Eliot tell theme things thought tion tradition true truth ture verse Whitman whole words writing wrote