The Silence of Bartleby

by Dan McCall

Book Overview

In The Silence of Bartleby, Dan McCall proposes a new reading of Herman Melville's classic short tale "Bartleby, The Scrivener." McCall discuss in detail how "Bartleby has been read in the last half-century by practitioners of widely used critical methodologies--including source-study, psychoanalytic interpretation, and Marxist analysis. He argues that in these elaborate readings of the tale, the text itself may be lost, for critics frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801423201
• ISBN13: 9780801423208
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher