http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/herman-melville The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-bartleby-can-teach-us-about-occupy-wall-street <p>&quot;Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street,&quot; composed in 1853, is perhaps Herman Melville's most famous short story. It's certainly his most inscrutable.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-bartleby-can-teach-us-about-occupy-wall-street">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-bartleby-can-teach-us-about-occupy-wall-street#comments Bartleby Herman Melville Occupy Wall Street http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1368 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:54:48 -0800 Lauren Klein 1368 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences <p><b>Miéville and Marvell</b></p> <p>I love this moment in China Miéville's <i>The City &amp; the City</i>: The narrator (for this is an I-book), Inspector Tyador Borlu, is a noir cop in a fictional Balkan capital, Corwi is his assistant, and in their language <i>aj Tyrko</i> means Turkish-style:</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences#comments Andrew Marvell Breach China Miéville Critique of Judgment Dashiell Hammett Decision Theory Dong QiChang film noir Georges Bataille Helter Skelter Herman Melville James M. Cain Jean-Pierre Melville Jim Morrison Julie Taymor Kant Le Cercle Rouge Mrs. Dalloway narrators pastoral Piaget potlatch Proust Raymond Chandler Robert Mitchum sexual selection Stieg Larrson style The Beatles The City &amp; the City the Clash the Who Wallace Stevens William Empson Woolf http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1091 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:26:08 -0800 William Flesch 1091 at http://arcade.stanford.edu