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Concentrating on Melville's major sea novels—Redburn(1849), White Jacket (1850), Moby-Dick(1851), and Billy Budd, Sailor(1886-91)—this paper aims to explore a literary realism focusing on mixed genre and double discourse. With this writing method Melville attempts to portray various kinds of ideological matters such as genuine christianity, political domination, and commercialism. This narrative style has contributed to the making of 'American romance' which eventually developed into 'American renaissance.' Thus, it seems significant and worthwhile to examine these two elements of Melville's writing. There are notable implications regarding individual improvement and social revolution in Melville's narrative. Melville's contention is that, despite all kinds of injustices in the world, the pursuit of individual rights, in accordance with the ideals of democracy and equality, is still possible. This underlying representation of reality however is not easy to grasp. That's why he metaphysically traces out the mysterious phantom of life as well as evil. In order to see the descriptive strategy Melville used to make his writing persuasive, it is necessary to review how his writing methods such as irony, paradox, and oxymoron embody a metaphoric integration and harmony accepting many different genres. As a basis for reviewing Melville's characteristic technique and discourse, it is useful to examine the elements of intertextuality and dialogicality in his works. For concrete approaches to Melville's literary world, Bakhtin's dialogical theory is appropriate because Melville's discourse often has ambivalent and indeterminate connotations which seem to implicitly reveal his belief in absolute human values and the possibility of a new realism.