Bezanson
Proper noun
Meaning
Bezanson (plural Bezansons)
A surname from French.
Examples
Bezanson mentions sermons, dreams, travel account, autobiography, Elizabethan plays, and epic poetry.
Bezanson (1986), 188 He calls Ishmael's explanatory footnotes to establish the documentary genre "a Nabokovian touch".
Buell (2014), 364 Bezanson objects that the letter contains too many ambiguities to assume "that Dana's 'suggestion' would obviously be that Melville do for whaling what he had done for life on a man-of-war in White-Jacket".
Bezanson (1953), p. 655, italics Bezanson's Scholar Nathalia Wright divides the meetings with the vessels along other lines, singling out "four vessels met by the Pequod which have already encountered Ahab's quarry".
Bezanson further distinguishes Ishmael from the sailor and author Herman Melville.
Bezanson (1953), p. 648–649, italics Bezanson's A third level of rhetoric is the idiomatic, and just as the poetic it hardly is present in pure form.