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Zlogar, Richard J. "Body Politics in "Bartleby": Leprosy, Healing, and Christ-ness in Melville's "Story of Wall-Street"." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53, no. 4 (1999): 505–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903029.

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Over the years, critics have attached multiple equivalences to the title character in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853). Bartleby has become metaphor as readers have found a variety of matches for the condition of alienation and rejection implicit in his tragic story, a well-known example of which is interpreting Bartleby as an artist who refuses to produce the type of literature that is commercially successful in his society. The central contention of this study is that the scholarship written on "Bartleby" to date has not identified the vehicle for the tenor we uncover in Ba

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Fava, Giovanni A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 57, no. 3 (1992): 81–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000288578.

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Nichols, Ken. "Case Study #5: Bartleby, the Scrivener, a Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville." Public Voices 13, no. 2 (2016): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.125.

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“Bartleby” is the name of the principal character in Herman Melville’s short story about the relationship between a manager and an employee. Bartleby is the employee. His job is to be a scrivener, or a copyist.The setting is a small law firm on Wall Street a century and a half ago — long before computers and photocopy machines, or even typewriters and carbon paper. A scrivener’s job was to copy a document clearly and accurately using the information technology of the day: paper, a bottle of ink, and a sharpened quill.You’ll find that the office technology may be different now than it was in Ba

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Meyer, Joseph Matthew. "Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener." Explicator 64, no. 2 (2006): 89–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/expl.64.2.89-90.

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Giles, Todd. "Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener." Explicator 65, no. 2 (2007): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/expl.65.2.88-91.

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Yoshikuni, Hiroki. "Kant with Bartleby." Nineteenth-Century Literature 71, no. 1 (2016): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2016.71.1.37.

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Hiroki Yoshikuni, “Kant with Bartleby: A Fate of Freedom” (pp. 37–63) This essay explores the problem of the “unaccountable” in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1856) in light of the Kantian idea of freedom. The lawyer-narrator declares his own inability to tell a story of Bartleby, but by doing so he also emphasizes the scrivener’s accountableness, by which Bartleby is presented as a character of exceptional originality. Bartleby might thus appear free in the Kantian sense, because his unaccountableness suggests that the determining ground of his will is not determined by inclinat

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Goldfarb, Nancy D. "Charity as Purchase." Nineteenth-Century Literature 69, no. 2 (2014): 233–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2014.69.2.233.

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Nancy D. Goldfarb, “Charity as Purchase: Buying Self-Approval in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’” (pp. 233–261) This essay examines Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) in light of recent scholarship in philanthropic studies. Through the lawyer-narrator, Melville’s story discreetly challenges the representation of charity as a viable means of redistributing wealth and restoring balance to an unequal social structure. The narrator masterfully employs the rhetoric of charity to negotiate his role in Bartleby’s tragic outcome, generating a self-promoting narrative that deflects

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Sequeira Bras, Patricia. "How not to Occupy Bartleby." Excursions Journal 6, no. 1 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/exs.6.2015.189.

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This article aims to discuss how Bartleby, the character from Herman Melville’s homonymous story, Bartleby, The Scrivener re-emerged in the Occupy Movement in Wall Street. Here, I intend to argue that Bartleby has been wrongly appropriated, which in turn, may explain the shortcomings of the movement. The Occupy Wall Street took possession of Bartleby because in Melville’s story, he occupies the premises of a lawyer’s office in Wall Street. However, this appropriation has dismissed the political 'inefficacy' of Bartleby’s formula, 'I would prefer not to'. As I shall argue, the formula exposes i

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Gans, Jerome S., and Robert W. Ferrell. "Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”: The Vicissitudes of Treating a Difficult Patient." Psychodynamic Psychiatry 51, no. 2 (2023): 147–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2023.51.2.147.

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Taking the liberty of imagining the lawyer in Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener” as narrator/therapist and Bartleby as patient, this article, written with the therapist/reader in mind, traces the vicissitudes of countertransference and speculates on what constitutes a “good enough” therapeutic effort.

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Zurbrügg, Aurélie. "“Dead-Wall Reveries”: The Failure of the Medium in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." Studies in the American Short Story 3, no. 1-2 (2022): 130–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamershorstor.3.1-2.0130.

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ABSTRACT This essay examines Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street” through the perspective of media studies. It describes Bartleby’s communicational role by considering his inability to function as a medium. The article shows how the wall that faces the desk and the dead letters from his previous employment contribute to Bartleby’s “preference not to.” Surrounded by walls and forced to mechanically reproduce legal texts, Bartleby’s physical isolation prevents him from engaging in social interactions.

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Leahy, Caitríona. "Unterwegs zu Bachmann (via Melville): Re-reading 'Unter Mördern und Irren'." Austrian Studies 32, no. 1 (2024): 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.00002.

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Abstract: This article re-reads Bachmann's 1961 short story 'Unter Mördern und Irren' in tandem with Herman Melville's 1853 short story 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'. Bachmann's murderer who will not murder, it is argued, emulates Melville's scrivener who will not scriven, and in the texts' shared exposition of the act of not doing, Bachmann's concern with the terms and conditions of agency across her literary and essayistic work comes to light. This plays out in dialectical relationships between the individual and the collective, between reading and reasoning, and between copying and murdering. I

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Serrano, Elena Arroyo. "This Version of Bartleby: Making Melville’s short story present." Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 15, no. 1 (2022): 149–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00074_1.

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This Version of Bartleby is a film adaptation of Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’. How to adapt cinematically a character so closely related to writing? Bartleby works copying texts non-stop in order to face nothingness. He is, in the words of Spanish philosopher José Luis Pardo, a graphic sign, and Bartleby’s favourite expression, ‘I would prefer not to’ is close to what Deleuze called ‘agrammaticality’. It might be that the best film adaptation for Bartleby is one that deals with these issues while also questioning the nature of images. This Version of Bartleby has no images or so

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Serrano, Elena Arroyo. "This Version of Bartleby: Making Melville’s short story present." Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 15, no. 1 (2022): 149–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00074_1.

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This Version of Bartleby is a film adaptation of Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’. How to adapt cinematically a character so closely related to writing? Bartleby works copying texts non-stop in order to face nothingness. He is, in the words of Spanish philosopher José Luis Pardo, a graphic sign, and Bartleby’s favourite expression, ‘I would prefer not to’ is close to what Deleuze called ‘agrammaticality’. It might be that the best film adaptation for Bartleby is one that deals with these issues while also questioning the nature of images. This Version of Bartleby has no images or so

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Ryan, Steven T. "Cicero's Head in Melville's “Bartleby the Scrivener”." English Language Notes 43, no. 2 (2005): 116–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-43.2.116.

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Verdicchio, Massimo. ""Bartleby the Scrivener": An Allegory of Reading." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 45, no. 3 (2018): 438–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crc.2018.0040.

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Zhang, Yijie. "Unreliable narration in Herman Melvilles Bartleby, the Scrivener." Advances in Humanities Research 12, no. 4 (2025): 42–45. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7080/2025.25238.

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Herman Melvilles novella Bartleby, the Scrivener is renowned for its narrative ambiguity and complex themes of alienation and resistance. This paper explores the concept of unreliable narration through an analysis of the lawyer-narrators subjectivity, limited understanding, and shifting attitudes. It argues that the narrators unreliability functions not only as a storytelling device but also as a critique of capitalist dehumanization and emotional detachment. The essay ultimately suggests that Melville presents Bartleby as a figure of passive resistance, whose fate reflects the failures of a s

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THOMPSON, GRAHAM. "“Dead letters! … Dead Men?”: The Rhetoric of the Office in Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 395–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006449.

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Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace in antebellum America and transformations in capitalism. But, if one of the abiding mysteries of the story is the failure of the lawyer–narrator to sever his relationship with his young scrivener once Bartleby embarks upon his policy of preferring not to, it is a mystery that makes sense within both of these critical discourses. On the one hand, th

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Thompson, Alyssa. "The Call to Humanity in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." Women in Philosophy Journal 11 (2020): 74–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wipj2020117.

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Atashi, Laleh. "An Ecocritical Reading of Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 73 (September 2016): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.73.7.

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This research is an ecocritical reading of Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener." Melville's treatment of the environment is described and analyzed with regard to Augé 's theory of non-Places. The examples of non-place in Melville's Wall Street story include the compartmentalized office, the urban labyrinth, artificial and natural greeneries and oriental landscapes. The motif of compartmentalization forms the binary of insider and outsider. A close attention to the binaries in this story reveal Melville's critical attitude towards urban culture that threatens the American identity and mocks the

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Saxby, Justin. "Toadstools, Bartleby, and Badiou." Religion and the Arts 19, no. 1-2 (2015): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-01901003.

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This article brings together Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” with Lives of Jesus authored by David Strauss and Simon Greenleaf and reads them through Alain Badiou’s philosophy of the Event. If we bear in mind the raging debates of the time about how to write an historical account of Jesus, represented here by Strauss and Greenleaf, Melville’s story about a reclusive law-copyist and his frustrated biographer becomes a set of questions about the nature and purpose of biography. When Badiou’s ideas about the Event are taken into account, “Bartleby” intensifies into an anguished consid

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施恩惠, 施恩惠. "赫爾曼·梅爾維爾〈錄事巴托比：華爾街的故事〉中的反科技化之力". 語文與國際研究期刊 30, № 30 (2023): 021–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.53106/181147172023120030002.

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<p>梅爾維爾〈錄事巴托比：華爾街的故事〉出版至今評論多將焦點置於巴托比的回答：「我寧願不。」此回答引起學者對其反抗行為多重的詮釋，但卻甚少學者將當時美國十九世紀工業化社會以新潮科技取代傳統技術的背景列入討論，印刷技術的興起與法律事務所抄寫員的興衰關係就為一明顯的例子。本文將以媒介理論出發，闡述巴托比之回答與死亡可視為十九世紀美國新科技興起，人被迫機械化、技術化、規格化巨大浪潮下的反動力和能動性展現。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>Herman Melville’s &quot;Bartleby, the Scrivener&quot; has become a hit in American literature. The particular term &quot;the Bartleby industry&quot; indicates its importance and popularity in academic fields. The short story has been discussed regarding Marxism, autism, linguistics, legal systems, representation, and so on. A

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Gruesser, John, and Travis Montgomery. "Scribblers and Scriveners: Poe, Melville’s Bartleby, and Antebellum Literary New York." Poe Studies 49, no. 1 (2016): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/poe.2016.a643025.

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ABSTRACT: Critics have variously read “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a tale about the death of a legal copyist and putative Dead Letter Office worker, as Melville’s statement about failed attempts at communication, the lack of an audience for the American literary artist, and his own increasingly futile search for readers. As he penned “Bartleby,” Melville probably had in mind another author of serious and significant literature compelled to eke out a living by writing for magazines. That author was Edgar Allan Poe, who, from late 1844 to early 1845, labored at hackwork a mere seven blocks away fr

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Finseth, Ian. "Self-Organizing Systems in “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: Modernity, Subjectivity, and the Limits of Democracy." American Literary History 37, no. 1 (2025): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae136.

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Abstract Approaching Herman Melville as a serious early thinker about systems, and drawing on modern social systems theory, this essay proposes that we understand “Bartleby, the Scrivener” in terms of society’s ability to incorporate the disruptive element that Bartleby represents as it continually organizes itself toward a state of dynamic stability. The various systems operating in the world of the story, from money to the law to the postal service to writing itself, are discrete yet coordinated domains of social life that Bartleby can temporarily agitate but not fundamentally challenge. Fro

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Kelly, Lori Duin. "Office Setting as Organizational Structure in “Bartleby the Scrivener”." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (2017): 215824401769043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017690430.

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This article uses a methodology from the social sciences known as institutional ethnography to analyze the office setting in Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a site of social organization. This approach contributes to an understanding of how that office came to adopt specific structures as crucial to its functioning and how, as a consequence of those structures, individuals’ roles within the organization’s hierarchies became constituted. As fieldwork occurs inside of organizations, institutional ethnography also provides a tool for identifying and evaluating linguistic

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Hutami, Nestiani. "Death Instinct Manifested through Passive Aggresiveness and Its Social Effects in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 8, no. 1 (2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2017.8.1.1-8.

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Death instinct is a lifeless drive in human mind that certainly can affect behavior. This instinct can be manifested through passive aggresiveness that is not easily noticed but will slowly bring loss to everyone involved. In deeply understanding this matter, this paper attempts to analyze the death instint manifested through passive aggresivenessby depicting a short story entitled “Bartleby the Scrivener.” To do that, this paper will first examine Bartleby’s behaviors that indicate passive aggresiveness. Furthermore, it will explorehow Bartleby’s passive aggresiveness affectspeople around him

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Kuster, Maciej. "Kopista i błazen, czyli dwie mesjańskie formuły wolności. Frojdeska hermeneutyczno-spekulatywna." Dyskretny urok władzy. Idealiści, kolaboranci, oportuniści 19, no. 2 (2022): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23531991kk.22.017.16251.

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Niniejszy artykuł jest próbą hermeneutycznego, równoległego czytania dwóch nowoczesnych narracji – Melville’a o Bartlebym, biednym skrybie, i Freudowskiego dowcipu o francuskim królu. Głównym gestem zawartym w tekście jest spekulatywne potraktowanie tych formuł jako skutecznych aktów oporu, którym udało się przezwyciężyć i odczarować to, co Foucault nazywa Władzą. Autor traktuje nowelę i dowcip jako parabole, które są inherentnie ironiczne i komiczne w Heglowskim sensie, co oznacza, że operują na, a więc rozbijają porządek symboliczny i takie dychotomie, jak brak i eksces, transcendentalne i m

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Kuster, Maciej. "Efekt kompresji. Bartleby, czyli tajemnica inności." Wielogłos, no. 3 (53) (May 26, 2023): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2084395xwi.22.015.16821.

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Compression Effect. Bartleby, or the Mystery of Otherness The text proposes to read Bartleby, the Scrivener as a case of modern genealogy of Otherness. The aporias in Melville’s intertextual prose loudly reverberate in theology and philosophy – therefore one cannot read Melville’s novella without referencing the Bible but also the writings of Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze. Bartleby owes his popularity to the genius of Melville, who, by commenting on the America of his times, included in his short prosaic works hundreds of ambiguous and internally contradictory tropes. The aporias which w

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FURUI, YOSHIAKI. "Bartleby's Closed Desk: Reading Melville against Affect." Journal of American Studies 53, no. 2 (2017): 353–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817001402.

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To reconsider the affective turn in American literary studies, this essay reads Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853), with reference to “Benito Cereno” (1855) andThe Confidence-Man(1857), as an anti-affect story. By shedding light on silent characters in these works – Bartleby, Babo, and Black Guinea – it argues that Melville endeavors to adumbrate, not articulate, their private interiorities through language. Calling the inner recesses of his silent characters “secret emotions,” Melville probes into the boundaries between the effable and the ineffable by testing the limits of li

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Santos, Carlos Henrique Francisco de Amorim. "A constituição do estranho em Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street." Humanidades em diálogo 6 (November 8, 2014): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-7547.hd.2014.106259.

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A novela de Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street, tem notório destaque entre as obras do autor e tem fascinado autores, filósofos e o público leitor diante do desafio de interpretá-la. Nosso artigo busca analisar a novela de Melville à luz dos textos de Deleuze e Freud, tendo como foco a constituição do “estranho” dentro da novela e seu efeito na construção da obra literária norte-americana.

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Thomson, Shawn. "Looking Back to Old New York City in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby”." AMERICANA E-journal of American Studies in Hungary 20, no. 1 (2024): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.2024.1.1-16.

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Though “Bartleby, the Scrivener” takes place in the three-block area in and around the lawyer’s Wall Street offices, the uptown attitudes toward city life of the suburbs inform the lawyer’s relationships to his urban or downtown space. Wall Street stands as a central feature of the island city’s history, taking its name from a physical wall built to protect the Dutch from the British and the Indians. As a result, Wall Street served to differentiate the suburban from the urban confines of the city. Through the position of the lawyer in the Master Chancery office on Wall Street and his esteem of

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Miskolcze, Robin. "The Lawyer's Trouble with Cicero in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"." Leviathan 15, no. 2 (2013): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2013.0011.

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Oppo, Andrea. "Black Holes: A Philosophical View on and." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 23, no. 1 (2012): 307–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-023001020.

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This article focuses on two significant texts revealing the crisis and stalemate of narrative during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Herman Melville's short tale Bartleby, The Scrivener and Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Particular attention is paid to Gilles Deleuze's and Theodor Adorno's philosophical interpretations of these two authors. Overall, the interruption and impasse of narrative are shown to happen in two radically different ways in Melville and Beckett, leading to two equally different consequences for the definition of subjectivity in contemporary aesthetics.

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이광진. "A Study on Bartleby’s Resistance in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener-A Story of Wall Street”." Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 72, no. 3 (2015): 249–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.17326/jhsnu.72.3.201508.249.

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Lee, Wendy Anne. "The Scandal of Insensibility; or, The Bartleby Problem." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 5 (2015): 1405–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.5.1405.

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Reviving Thomas Hobbes's definition of the passions as interior motions that originate action, this essay considers the case of insensibility: an absence of feeling that results in immobility. Embodying this lack of feeling is the figure of the insensible, whose signature nonresponsiveness provokes the most vehement emotions in others. Through readings of Hobbes's theories of resistance and contempt, Adam Smith's condemnation of impassivity, and Herman Melville's tale of an “unmoving” scrivener, I examine how insensibility challenges the model of emotions as causes, as accounts of how a moved

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Lee, Yong-Hwa. "Melville's Insights into Homo Economicus' Manner of Existence in Bartleby, the Scrivener." Study of Humanities 29 (June 30, 2018): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31323/sh.2018.06.29.05.

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Benack, Carolin. "Subtraction from Supply and Demand: Challenges to Economic Theory, Representational Power, and Systems of Reference in Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.08-04.

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Herman Melville’s “Story of Wall Street” (1853), in which a lawyer gives an account of the life of the scrivener Bartleby, has been extensively commented on by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Many have found his enigmatic formula “I would prefer not to” to be the embodiment of a long sought-after remedy for seemingly fruitless revolts against oppressive capitalist mechanisms. In order to examine the potential of Bartleby’s challenge to power, I will read it against the representational authority of economic theory, and, more specifically, the supply and demand model. The close reading

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Vilela, Lúcia Helena Azevedo. "O Copista de Wall Street: Produtividade, Reprodução e a Escolha de Bartleby." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 5 (October 31, 1997): 281–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.5..281-290.

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Neste trabalho são discutidas as noções de realidade e arte, cópia e criação, perante a acelerada reprodução da obra de arte na modernidade e suas implicações na conceituação de criação artística. Walter Benjamin e Paul Valéry proporcionaram o instrumental para a discussão, aqui ilustrada pelo conto Bartleby the Scrivener, de Herman Melville, pela visão adiante de seu tempo que o autor imprime à sua enigmática personagem central, em seu dilema existencial entre a possibilidade da repetição de si mesma e a transgressora resistência passiva ao cumprimento da tarefa de copista. Não se buscou iden

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KIM, Yong-Sung. "“Religious Significance in Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street’.”." Literature and Religion 19, no. 4 (2014): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2014.19.4.45.

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Reed, N. C. "The Specter of Wall Street: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and the Language of Commodities." American Literature 76, no. 2 (2004): 247–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-247.

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Kim, mi jin. "The Age of Literature - 「Bartleby the Scrivener」 and the Reality of Today's Youth." Korean Association Of Bibliotherapy 17, no. 2 (2025): 175–80. https://doi.org/10.35398/job.2025.17.2.175.

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Rossi, Giuseppe. "“I Would Prefer Not To”: A Lawyer Facing the Irresponsible Power." Pólemos 15, no. 2 (2021): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2021-2015.

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Abstract The essay considers Hermann Melville’s character Bartleby as an example of irresponsible power, since, in the story, the scrivener changes deeply his lawyer employer’s way of thinking and living, without giving any single answer to the many questions which the narrator keeps asking him about his apparently absurd behavior. The article offers some reflections about the difficulties that legal rules, as well as other set of rules (moral, ethics) meet when they are called to face irresponsible powers, and about the need to keep asking questions, though knowing that they will meet no fina

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Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. "Motherhood, Witchcraft, and the Refusal to Conform." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 80, no. 3 (2024): 73–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2024.a941981.

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Abstract: This essay reads an American literary history of motherhood, witchcraft, and resistant bodies through the lens of Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch (2021). Like Kelly Barnhill's When Women Were Dragons (2022), Nightbitch asks why mothers and other care workers might fantasize about escaping the social expectations placed upon mothers and maternal bodies. These novels, and the canonical works they point to, from "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" to Alice in Wonderland and The Marvelous Land of Oz , suggest that both Christian and capitalist systems identify mothers and care

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Vilela, Lúcia Helena Azevedo. "O Copista de Wall Street: Produtividade, Reprodução e a Escolha de Bartleby." Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura 5 (October 31, 1997): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.5.0.281-290.

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Neste trabalho são discutidas as noções de realidade e arte, cópia e criação, perante a acelerada reprodução da obra de arte na modernidade e suas implicações na conceituação de criação artística. Walter Benjamin e Paul Valéry proporcionaram o instrumental para a discussão, aqui ilustrada pelo conto Bartleby the Scrivener, de Herman Melville, pela visão adiante de seu tempo que o autor imprime à sua enigmática personagem central, em seu dilema existencial entre a possibilidade da repetição de si mesma e a transgressora resistência passiva ao cumprimento da tarefa de copista. Não se buscou iden

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Wamberg, Jacob. "SHRINK TO EXPAND: THE READYMADES THROUGH THE LARGE GLASS." Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 28, no. 57-58 (2019): 109–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nja.v28i57-58.114852.

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   Departing from Duchamp’s advice in 1961 of finding the “com- mon factor” between the non-representative and the representa- tive, translated here into modernism and avant-garde, this article seeks to understand the readymades as objects that have passed metaphorically through Duchamp’s magnum opus, the unfinished Large Glass (1915-23). More precisely, the readymades are seen as mass-produced utensils that have been stripped bare of their usual function, i.e. their actualization, in order to regain potentiali- ty. Mapping Giorgio Agamben’s interpretation of Herman Melville’

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