Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Critics maintain that the fiction of Herman Melville (18191891) has

1. The primary purpose of the passage is(E) note several accusations made against Melville's fiction by literary critics and refute one of these accusations.
The passage introduces and discusses various criticisms leveled against the fiction of Herman Melville, such as the lack of inventive plots and occasionally inscrutable style. It then focuses on the more serious charge that Melville is a deficient writer because he does not conform to the "art of fiction" as conceived by Henry James and twentieth-century critics. The passage refutes this accusation and argues that Melville should be judged based on his own presuppositions aboutfiction.

2. The author draws the conclusion that(D) Melville and James should be viewed as different sorts of writers and one should not be regarded as inherently superior to the other.
The passage argues against the notion that Melville's fiction is deficient because it does not possess the qualities of a Jamesian novel. Instead, the author suggests
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