Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 1993. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-396).

The exploration and discontinuity of Melville's early life are reflected in his writing career. Before settling into silent conventionality, he wrote remarkably diverse prose. His aesthetics were individualistic: the page was an arena in which to deploy experimental strategies. / The novels from Typee to Moby-Dick can be regarded as action of mind as it explores ways of seeing and describing reality. But these experiments proved that vision is inevitably guided by the well-stocked mind and that Nature is an everchanging subjective construct. / In Pierre, The Piazza Tales, and The Confidence-Man--the fiction that immediately followed these discoveries--the action is externalized. Melville now explores the artist's use of definite forms rather than his mental positings. Paradoxically, this new aesthetic came to serve his final purpose: of disengagement that was subsequently fully manifested in the silence that followed.

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Diss. Univ. Köln, 2007.

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Thèse de doctorat : Lettres et Arts : Lyon 2 : 2001. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2000. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves I-V. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-123).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. David Kirby, Florida State University, School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 29, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.