Melville’s Obsessional Form: Disjunction and Refusal in “Benito Cereno”
“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation to narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been a sl...
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Main Author: | Matthew Scully |
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Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2023-09-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20794 |
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