Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index.
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pt. 1. Introduction -- Melville's life -- "Agatha" and the invention of narrative -- pt. 2. Melville's early yarns -- "Making literary use of the story" : Typee and Omoo -- "A regular story founded on striking incidents" : Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- pt. 3. Writing new gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So much of pathos & so much of depth" : Moby-Dick -- "All tender obligations" : Pierre -- pt. 4. Turning a new leaf : short fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A leaf from professional experience" : short fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly latitudinarian notions" : Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- pt. 5. Melville's later career -- "Fulness & veins & beauty" : Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different considerations" : late poetry -- "Instinct with significance" : Billy Budd -- Afterword : "Restoring to you your own property" : owning Melville -- Appendix : The "Agatha" correspondence.
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Arranged chronologically, this volume explores Herman Melville's distinctive narrative style on some of his novels, short fiction, and poems.--Book cover.
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Herman Melville.
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Herman Melville.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Critique et interprétation.
Melville-- Herman-- 1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation.