Bercovich placed Melvilles late work in the nihilistic anti-jeremiad category, while Stewart reorients him to the hopeful, alongside Edwards and DuBois.

Point being, it’s a trenchant, sturdy yet flexible rhetorical style that moves bodies, minds and souls. Use it liberally

A good ol’ covenant, lamentation and prophecy that explains the gap between ideal and reality will always be infinitely better than a thousand academic critiques

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