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The Weaver-God, He Weaves
The Weaver-God,
He Weaves Melville and the Poetics
of the Novel
Christopher Sten
The Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio, and London, England
© 1996 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242
All rightsreserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 95-37382 ISBN 0-87338-537-3 Manufactured in the United States of America
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Libraryof Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sten, Christopher, 1944The weaver God, he weaves Melville and the poetics of the novel / Christopher Sten. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87338-537-3 (hc : alk. paper) @ Melville, Herman, 1819-1891-Technique. 2. Popular literatureTechnique. 3. Narration (Rhetoric). 4. Fiction-Technique. 5. Literary form. 6. Poetics. I. Title. 1.
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