This article brings together Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" with Lives of Jesus authored by David Strauss and Simon Greenleaf and reads them through Alain Badiou's philosophy of the Event. If we bear in mind the raging debates of the time about how to write an historical account of Jesus, represented here by Strauss and Greenleaf, Melville's story about a reclusive law-copyist and his frustrated biographer becomes a set of questions about the nature and purpose of biography. When Badiou's ideas about the Event are taken into account, "Bartleby" intensifies into an anguished consideration of what to do, or what to write, after a life-altering encounter with an elusive subject who leaves no evidentiary trace.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2015
توصيف ظاهري
51-73
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
19/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Badiou
اصطلاح موضوعی
Bartleby
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Melville
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Strauss
اصطلاح موضوعی
the Event
اصطلاح موضوعی
the Historical Jesus
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