Melville & Repose And Pynchon's Humor

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:18 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ;----)

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