Charity, Melancholy, and the Protestant Ethic in Herman Melville’s Bartleby and Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
Relying on Max Weber’s and Colin Campbell’s description of the Spirit of Capitalism, I plan to interpret the narrators of Melville’s Bartleby and Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! as embodying two complementary aspects of the same ethical attitude informing such spirit. This is characterized by the oscillation be...
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2017-07-01
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| Series: | L'Analisi linguistica e letteraria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ALL%201%202017_Charity,%20Melancholy,%20and%20the%20Protestant%20Ethic%20in%20Herman%20Melville%E2%80%99s%20Bartleby%20and%20Cock-A-Doodle-Doo%20Federico%20Bellini.pdf |