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Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies“I’d Prefer Not To”: Melville’s Challenge to Normative Identity in Bartleby, the Scrivener

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies: “I’d Prefer Not To”: Melville’s... [Okay, I know this may sound strange, but I often catch myself wondering about Bartleby. Herman Melville’s enigmatic subject from his 1853 novella, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street and his canonical refrain, “I’d prefer not to,” comes to mind at the most inconvenient of times: while I am typing my final semester papers, while staring at a sink full of dirty dishes, or admiring the hardly worn soles of my running shoes. These are things that I know should be doing in order to feel proud and productive, things that I eventually convince myself to do, but still I get a perverse pleasure in simply imagining, through Bartleby, a space for my preferences to reign over my rationality.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies“I’d Prefer Not To”: Melville’s Challenge to Normative Identity in Bartleby, the Scrivener

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 12)
Editors: Ware, Linda
Fleming, Natalie M.
Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies — Mar 14, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-35307-0
Pages
119 –126
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-35309-4_10
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Abstract

[Okay, I know this may sound strange, but I often catch myself wondering about Bartleby. Herman Melville’s enigmatic subject from his 1853 novella, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street and his canonical refrain, “I’d prefer not to,” comes to mind at the most inconvenient of times: while I am typing my final semester papers, while staring at a sink full of dirty dishes, or admiring the hardly worn soles of my running shoes. These are things that I know should be doing in order to feel proud and productive, things that I eventually convince myself to do, but still I get a perverse pleasure in simply imagining, through Bartleby, a space for my preferences to reign over my rationality.]

Published: Mar 14, 2020

Keywords: Autism; Culture; Literary representations; Medical discourse; Enigmatic behavior

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