TY - BOOK AU - Dryden,Edgar A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Melville's Thematics of Form : : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / SN - 9781421429991 PY - 1968///] CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins Press KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Technique KW - fast KW - Literary form KW - Genres litteraires KW - Histoire KW - 19e siecle KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67847/ ER -