{"product_id":"the-silence-of-bartleby-dan-e-mccall-9780801495939","title":"The Silence of Bartleby","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 seem to be more interested in their own concerns than in Melville's. Efforts to enrich \"Bartleby\" may actually impoverish it, preventing us from experiencing the sense of wonder and pain that the story provides. McCall combines close readings of Melville's tale with a lively analysis of over four decades of commentary, and he includes the complete text of story itself as an appendix, encouraging us to read the story on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan E. McCall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801495938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801495939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Dan E. McCall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926132326655,"sku":"9780801495939","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_aec77ce2-f5b5-45b5-91f9-d740baccdc3e.jpg?v=1681081384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silence-of-bartleby-dan-e-mccall-9780801495939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}