Chaos in the novel, the novel in the chaos

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Nikčević-Batrićević, A. (2006). Chaos in the novel, the novel in the chaos: Herman Melville and his poetics: in search of order, 4(1), 95-101. Retrieved from http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/321
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Title

Chaos in the novel, the novel in the chaos

Subtitle

Herman Melville and his poetics: in search of order

Author

Aleksandra, Nikčević-Batrićević

Journal

Philologia

Volume
Issue

1

Start page

95

End page

101

ISSN

1820-5682

ISBN
DOI
URL

http://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/321

Date

2006-2021/11/08/10:17:03

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to point to the specific synthesis of autobiographical, non-fictional, and fictional material in literary works of Herman Melville in which, according to the romantic postulates, the affirmation of different generic conceptions is manifested. The special concentration of the paper is on the early period in Melville’s career in which the first novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, presents the perfect example of the above stated. In this novel the author parodies the romance as a genre and, after a process of modification, ‘places’ it into the inner construction of his literary texts, where it succumbs once more to the specific laws and especially the horizon of expectation of the reading public in Melville’s time. The manifestations of the generic hibridity are evident on many layers of the text.

Keywords

romance