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Page 145
... story of Moby - Dick is the story of that struggle blown up to epic pro- portions . Perhaps only the short story " Bartleby , " written the year after Pierre , represents in a finished work of art the perfect balance of comedy and ...
... story of Moby - Dick is the story of that struggle blown up to epic pro- portions . Perhaps only the short story " Bartleby , " written the year after Pierre , represents in a finished work of art the perfect balance of comedy and ...
Page 148
... story of Charlemont ? " mildly asked he who told it . " A very strange one , " answered the auditor , who had been such not with perfect ease , " but is it true ? ” " Of course not ; it is a story which I told with the purpose of every ...
... story of Charlemont ? " mildly asked he who told it . " A very strange one , " answered the auditor , who had been such not with perfect ease , " but is it true ? ” " Of course not ; it is a story which I told with the purpose of every ...
Page 183
... story — is jauntily designed , constructed with the tools of his most ap- pealing craftsmanship and free from the creaking machinery of ambiguity that had marred even parts of Moby - Dick and " Bartleby . " The discovery of the table ...
... story — is jauntily designed , constructed with the tools of his most ap- pealing craftsmanship and free from the creaking machinery of ambiguity that had marred even parts of Moby - Dick and " Bartleby . " The discovery of the table ...
Contents
Introduction I | 4 |
The Comic Matter II | 11 |
The Comic Manner | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Ahab Ahab's ambiguity American Humor American Renaissance artist Azzageddi Babbalanja Bartleby burlesque called canoe Carl Van Doren Cetology chap chapter character Chase chimney comedy comic spirit conceit Confidence-Man cosmopolitan crew critical dark demon devils Emerson episode Evert Duyckinck figure fool frontier Hawthorne head Herman Melville hero humorist ironic Ishmael Israel Potter Jarl jocular joke king laugh laughter less literary Long Ghost Mardi Mardian Matthiessen Media Melville to Evert Melville's comic Melvillian metaphysical Metcalf mind Moby Moby-Dick Mohi mood native never novel Omoo passage Pequod philosophical Pierre Pierre's play Plinlimmon puns Queequeg Rabelais Rabelaisian reader Redburn remark Richard Chase sailors satire scene seems Shakespeare Shakespearean sharks ship sort sperm whale story Stubb suggest symbol Taji theme thing thou thought tion tone tragic Transcendentalist Trying-Out of Moby-Dick Twain Typee and Omoo voyage whale whimsical White-Jacket writing wrote Yankee Yoomy