Herman Melville: Realist
Date
1949-05Author
French, Isabelle P.
Advisor
Taylor, Ross McLaury,1909-1977Metadata
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It seems to have been decreed that there are two broad groups into
which all literature, and hence, all writers, must fall, the Realistic and
the Romantic. In contrast to the romancer who creates a vision or interpretation
of a life rarely attained by man in reality, minimizing or
ignoring those phases of life which are sordid or distasteful, the realist
attempts to render life as it actually is, pleasant or unpleasant. With
these points in mind, the following study, dealing with his work as a
whole, the novels, novelettes, short stories, and poetry, proposes to
define Herman Melville as being basically a Realist, as opposed to Romanticist,
in thought, philosophy, and work.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Typee, Omoo, and Mardi -- Redburn, White Jacket, and Billy Budd -- Moby Dick -- Later works -- Pierre -- Benito Cereno -- The confidence man -- Isreal Potter -- The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles -- I and my chimney -- Poetry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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Thesis (M.A.)-- University of Wichita, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English