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	Melville's Short Fiction
		The Piazza Tales first reappeared in print in 1922 as a volume in the new collected edition of Melville published by a British firm, Constable and Company, and in that same year Princeton University Press brought together Melville's previously uncollected magazine pieces in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville.
		Writing when he did, Fogle was cautiously determined not to overrate the tales "in proportion as they were underrated in the past"; indeed he pronounced them "very uneven in quality." "Melville," he declared, is "not a craftsman in the ordinary meaning of the term.
		Bickley's ensuing discussion is divided between examination of Melville's employment of "narrative personae" and "rhetorical irony" and--in the second half of his book--an extended study of the interrelation of "narrative form, epistemology, and vision" in the remaining pieces (p.
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		It was republished in 1856 as one of The Piazza Tales, all pieces by Melville, under the abbreviated title "Bartleby." In addition to the titles there are several other textual differences between the two versions.
		A full account of the textual differences in the two versions is printed in The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860, ed.
		In that scholarly edition the editors adopt a few readings from the Piazza Tales version as corrections of errors in the original printing or changes probably made by Melville himself.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/textualhistory.html (350 words)

	Style: "They but reflect the things": style and rhetorical purpose in Melville's "The Piazza Tale"
		What makes "The Piazza Tale" unique in the context of the other stories in the Piazza Tales collection (1856) is that it was written exclusively to introduce the collection, and as an introduction it anticipates in rhetorical purpose many moves Melville makes in the other tales.
		Ultimately, meaning in "The Piazza Tale" not only evolves out of an understanding of the manifold allusions and topical patterns evident in the text, but also in Melville's manipulation of style in the voices of both the narrator and Marianna.
		The end of "The Piazza Tale" reveals the effect of Melville's rhetorical strategies: he effectively subverts the narrator's antirepublican perspective by showing how it is contrary to the maintenance of community, and in fact leads to its destruction.
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	English 251: American Lit. (1600-1865)
		Accuracy was assured, as we see in Melville's tale, by proofreading jointly undertaken by the scriveners employed in a particular office.
		Read as an allegory of modem labor, with its reliance on mechanically reduplicative tasks, the scrivener's job is symbolic: it stands for the diminished individuality, the diminished agency of the human being in conditions of modem, factory-style labor.
		You'll notice that the narrator of Melville's tale, an elderly lawyer, likes to drop the name of John Jacob Astor, whose death in 1848 was widely hailed as an epitome of the new captains of industry, an example of what the self-reliant individual might accomplish.
	www.uky.edu /AS/English/courses/online/eng251/assignment28.html (873 words)

	elimae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Each tale revolves around the notion of the piazza as described in the title story: a piazza, an outside porch or balcony that surrounds a house, defines a physical and psychological space from which the world may be viewed.
		Melville uses this space as the premise upon which each of the tales revolves; without this context, the full impact of the collection is lost, or, at the very least, is lessened.
		The full impact of Melville's intention is only to be had in the relationship of the tales to each other, in the relationship of the subsequent tales to the title story's themes.
	www.elimae.com /essays/bauman/intent.html (406 words)

	The Piazza Tales
		Unlike Melville's earlier works, The Piazza Tales is not a full-length novel but a collection of six short pieces.
		One of these, The Piazza, was written by Melville to serve as a title piece to the volume; the other five had previously been published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
		The tale entitled "Benito Cereno," is most painfully interesting, and in reading it we became nervously anxious for the solution of the mystery it involves.
	www.melville.org /hmpiazza.htm (2832 words)

	Herman Melville Biography
		His short tales, "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," are carefully crafted and profoundly sensitive critiques of his own age that emerge as fables applicable to a later day.
		The "tasteful mansions of the chiefs and the foreign residents impart an air of tropical elegance" and the palm groves sway gently in the background.
		The narrative is the vehicle for the initiation tale of the sailor storyteller, Ishmael--another Tommo, Redburn, or White-Jacket--and for the tragedy of the principal character, the whaling captain Ahab--a Taji--and for the conflict between them, or rather, between what they embody, for in the narrative there is never an exchange between them.
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	THE PIAZZA TALES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The house was wide, my fortune narrow, so that, to build a panoramic piazza, one round and round, it could not be — although, indeed, considering the matter by rule and square, the carpenters, in the kindest way, were anxious to gratify my furthest wishes, at I've forgotten how much a foot.
		But, even in December, this northern piazza does not repel — nipping cold and gusty though it be, and the north wind, like any miller, bolting by the snow in finest flour — for then, once more, with frosted beard, I pace the sleety deck, weathering Cape Horn.
		But, in one language, and as with one voice, all poured out a common tale of suffering; in which the Negresses, of whom there were not a few, exceeded the others in their dolorous vehemence.
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	Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, and received his early education in that city.
		He says he gained his first love of adventure listening to his father Allan, who was an extensive traveller for his time, telling tales of the monstrous waves at sea, mountain high, of the masts bending like twigs, and all about Le Havre and Liverpool.
		After the death of his father the family (eight brothers and sisters) moved to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Herman_Melville (1538 words)

	Library of America: Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales
		The one exception is "The Piazza," which Melville wrote as the book's title piece and for which the basic text adopted, in the absence of a manuscript, is its original appearance in The Piazza Tales volume.
		In The Piazza Tales, the textual problems are more complex not only because there are two authoritative texts of each piece (except "The Piazza")--that of Putnam's Magazine, set from Melville's manuscript, and that of the book--but also because Melville himself revised the magazine texts, as he evidently had not done for Israel Potter.
		Melville's uncollected prose in this volume is divided into two parts, one of tales and the other of articles and reviews, and is arranged chronologically by order of composition (reconstructed, as close as is possible so far, by Merton M. Sealts, Jr., for the Northwestern-Newberry Edition).
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	Other stories, sketches, and journals (from Melville, Herman) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Informal in style, the sketch is less dramatic but more analytic and descriptive than the tale and the short story.
		Today such works are called short stories, and their modern form was devised during the 19th century.
		But tales, sketches, fables, anecdotes, romances, myths, and other short narratives have been told and written down for more than 3,000 years.
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	elimae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales exhibits instances of grace, moral self-awareness, and opportunities for readerly evaluation of narrative projections upon unwitting accomplices as to be found where else in modern literature?
		Individual attempts at explication, which, in the telling, become the outcomes of the tale.
		The color of the character of those describing speaks for itself; the essence of the narrators peppered, seemingly, with the goodness, curiosity, insistence, of their author; or, perhaps, this is simply the reviewer projecting his desires upon their page.
	www.elimae.com /reviews/melville/tales.html (224 words)

	The Piazza Tales
		These tales were six short stories that consisted of The Piazza,Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightening-rod Man, The Encantadas, and The Bell Tower.
		In The Piazza the narrator loves piazzas so much that he builds one on his house.
		He hates the house for two reasons, one because it dosen’t have a piazza and two the house dosen’t n allow for the piazza to go all the way around the house.
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	Sicily 2 003: Travel Writing&Photojournalism
		Religious festivals at which celebrants tidy up their family tombs and make archangels dance in the village piazza.
		Tales like these, along with all the myriad sights, flavors, and fragrances of Sicily, burst from the pages of this gem of contemporary travel writing."
		This is the collection of Italian stories from this great series of anthologies of modern travel writing.
	www.umass.edu /journal/sicilyprogram/readinglist.html (901 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
		The other two works reveal Melville's mastery of very different writing styles: 'The Lightning-Rod Man,' a satire showcasing his talent for Dickensian comedy, and 'The Piazza,' the title story of the collection, which anticipates the author's later absorption with poetry.
		For though, of old, when reverence was in vogue, and indolence was not, the devotees of Nature, doubtless, used to stand and adore--just as, in the cathedrals of those ages, the worshipers of a higher Power did--yet, in these times of failing faith and feeble knees, we have the piazza and the pew.
		The house was wide--my fortune narrow; so that, to build a panoramic piazza, one round and round, it could not be--although, indeed, considering the matter by rule and square, the carpenters, in the kindest way, were anxious to gratify my furthest wishes, at I've forgotten how much a foot.
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	Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine (Melville) - Product Details \| GamingHaven.com Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine (Melville) - Product Details
		Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine (Melville)
		I feel that it is worthy buying The Piazza Tales even if you just read this one story let alone the five other stories.
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	Herman Melville: Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Herman Melville: Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America).
		Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford Nathaniel Hawthorne...
		Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd Washington...
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	Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Billy Budd's encounter with "justice," Bartleby's statement that he would "prefer not", Benito Cerino's exploration of slavery-- these tales are not to be missed.
		Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America) Review: Darkly humorous, cynical, horrific and melancholy, Melville's later works are the capstone to the author's deepening discontent with his America.
		And the shorter works--among them The Piazza Tales, Benito Cereno, and Bartleby the Scrivener--are imbued with such a longing for any kind of graspable meaning, that their readers, like their characters, find themselves in a ponderous state of shock.
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	Buy.com - The Piazza Tales : Herman Melville : ISBN 0810114674
		Buy.com - The Piazza Tales : Herman Melville : ISBN 0810114674
		In this new reprint of the six stories that comprised the 1856 edition of The Piazza Tales, the editors of the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville have used the original magazine versions for five of the six stories in order to present the most accurate texts of these works.
		Of the less well-known tales, the humor in "The Piazza" and "The Lightning-Rod Man", and the gothic horror of "The Bell Tower", command our careful attention as well.
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	CliffsNotes::Moby-Dick:Book Summary and Study Guide
		It is a rewrite of a story about an American Revolutionary veteran who returns to America after fifty years of adventures abroad, having learned to be a survivor through the application of good sense.
		The Piazza Tales (1856) contains some of Melville’s finest writing, shorter works such as “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a consideration of the values of Wall Street; the dark “Benito Cereno”; and a work that has grown in respect over the years, “The Encantadas,” a philosophical look into the Galapagos Islands.
		These last works, especially The Piazza Tales, found some small audience, but Melville was terribly discouraged and withdrew from his efforts to support himself and his family through writing.
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	Buy.com - Piazza Tales : Herman Melville : ISBN 0810105519
		Buy.com - Piazza Tales : Herman Melville : ISBN 0810105519
		The most famous fairy tales of all time have spurred a movie about the two brothers.
		He died at home, 104 East 26th Street, of heart failure, at the age of 72.
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	S.Howe Syllabus - Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Assigned Texts: Moby-Dick (Penguin), Piazza Tales (Northwestern), Letters to Hawthorne, Duyckinck and others.
		NS&SH SPRING BREAK April 13: Piazza Tales: "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," NS & SH April 20: "Bartleby" SH April 27: "Benito Cereno" NS May 4: Last class.
		Melville's use of pulp literature such as captivity narratives, travel journals, whaling stories, penny journals etc. in his work.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/howe/syllabi/melville.html (306 words)

	Herman Melville and Arrowhead - Berkshire Historical Society
		The view of Mount Greylock from his study window, the one that brought him to Arrowhead, was said to be his inspiration for the white whale in Moby-Dick.
		His short story, “The Piazza,” begins at Arrowhead and takes a magical journey to the mountain.
		The piazza, after which the story and the book The Piazza Tales were named, is a porch Melville added to the north side of Arrowhead shortly after he purchased the property.
	www.mobydick.org /hm.html (1735 words)

	The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860
		The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860
		PIAZZA TALES, a volume of six short stories, was originally published in 1856.
		It includes "The Bell Tower," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Piazza," "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby the Scrivener," and "The Encantadas."
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		But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener the strangest I ever saw or heard of.
		"Bartleby" (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces...
		"Bartleby" (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The...
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		The exploration of metaphysics and allegory first broached in Mardi is continued by Pierre (1852), Israel Potter (1855), The Piazza Tales (1856), and The Confidence Man (1857).
		The short stories and sketches Bartleby, Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas from The Piazza Tales deal with man's inhumanity to man and are played against savage and desolate landscapes.
		The tale concerns a quarrel between the villainous Radney, chief mate of the Town Ho, and the noble Steelkilt, an ordinary seaman, and accounts for Steelkilt's escape to Tahiti.
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	Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) Review: The Lighting-Rod Man is one of Melville's lesser known stories.
		Despite the cold, dark setting, it is more comical than most of his works other works.
		Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860 : Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) Review: Put simply, this is the best collection of short stories by any American author.
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	Herman Melville's Arrowhead at Berkshire Historical Society
		Here in Pittsfield he also penned great works such as Pierre, "The Confidence Man" and "The Piazza Tales." Melville lived, farmed and wrote at Arrowhead for thirteen years, developing many close literary friendships with other Berkshire authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, David Dudley Field and the Sedgwick family.
		The author's study, piazza, the original fireplace from his short story "I and My Chimney" and the restored barn in which Melville and Hawthorne spent hours discussing their writings are all open to the public.
		The Society has also restored the North Meadow preserving the view of Mount Greylock which was a major inspiration to Melville.
	www.berkshirehistory.org /md.html (275 words)

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