Preferring not to:The Paradox of Passive Resistance in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby”
“I would prefer not to.”“You will not?”“I prefer not.”“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) is a story of passive resistance. And as the narrator is forced to admit, “Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.” Refusing to kow-tow to the demands of his employer, and working to his o...
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2001
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| Dostęp online: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/hb3p https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/575 |
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