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The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd
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The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd
| Title: | The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd |
| Author: | Webb, David Potter Townsend |
| Abstract: | This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas using a methodological framework that attempts to synthesize a historical lens and psychoanalytic perspectives. While the historical and psychoanalytical approaches may sometimes appear to resist reconciliation, they will generally complement each other. It is only through analysis that takes into account both the psychoanalytic and the historical that we can comprehend how intensive is Melville’s sense of a social degeneration that affected both the internal subjective demands on citizenship and the external evidence of history. |
| Description: | English Department Honors Thesis. Merrill Moore Co-winner 2012, Best Honors Thesis |
| Subject: | Melville, Herman |
| LCSH Subject: |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Benito Cereno Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Encantadas |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5106 |
| Date: | 2012-04-16 |
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| Webb, David. Final, Final Thesis.pdf | 942.9Kb |
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