Melville & Repose And Pynchon's Humor

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Melville and repose: the rhetoric of humor in the American Renaissance
By John Bryant is now available Online. Those interested in P's humor
(a subject addressed perhaps more than any other by the critical
industry) may find Bryant worthwhile. Bryant employing the traditional
grinding wheel and ax, claims that his reading of Melville is
unorthodox. But be that as it may be or not be, those interested in
humor in America's dark romances and satires should enjoy Bryant's
brilliant readings of the comic in Melville and, some may even
applaud his pluralism and rhetorical criticism ;----)