Melville and the Comic SpiritUsing elements of traditional Celtic lore, relates how Kate helps her stepsister Meghan to break the spell that has given her the head of a sheep. |
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... kind of artistic naïveté and as such may make us smile at the author more than at the pun , though many a bewildered reader of Pierre and The Confidence - Man has wished for a little of the youthful naïveté to light him through those ...
... kind of artistic naïveté and as such may make us smile at the author more than at the pun , though many a bewildered reader of Pierre and The Confidence - Man has wished for a little of the youthful naïveté to light him through those ...
Page 118
... kind of Tic - Dolly- row they say worse nor a toothache . Well , well ; I don't know Think not , is - 87 387 what it is , but the Lord keep me from catching it . . my eleventh commandment . " 6 29 125 After Ahab's revelation of the ...
... kind of Tic - Dolly- row they say worse nor a toothache . Well , well ; I don't know Think not , is - 87 387 what it is , but the Lord keep me from catching it . . my eleventh commandment . " 6 29 125 After Ahab's revelation of the ...
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... kind of farmer dignity . . . A neat , comely , almost ruddy cheek , coolly fresh . . . the colour of warmth preserved by the virtue of chill . Toning the whole man , was one - knows - not - what of shrewdness and mythiness , strangely ...
... kind of farmer dignity . . . A neat , comely , almost ruddy cheek , coolly fresh . . . the colour of warmth preserved by the virtue of chill . Toning the whole man , was one - knows - not - what of shrewdness and mythiness , strangely ...
Contents
Introduction I | 4 |
The Comic Matter II | 11 |
The Comic Manner | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Ahab ambiguity American appears artist Babbalanja becomes better bright called chap chapter character comedy comes comic comic spirit conceit Confidence-Man course critical dark deal death devils early effect Emerson eyes face fact figure final Ghost give hand Hawthorne head heart Herman Melville human humor ideas ironic Ishmael joke kind king later laugh laughter least less light literary live look manner Mardi marked meaning Media Melville's mind Moby-Dick native nature never observable Omoo once passage perhaps person philosophical Pierre play puns reader Redburn reflects remark respect sailors satire scene seems seen sense Shakespearean sometimes sort stand story Stubb suggest symbol tell theme thing thought tion tone tragic true turned Typee voyage whale White-Jacket whole writing wrote young