Billy Budd: Two Concepts of Nature
1957; Duke University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2922460
ISSN1527-2117
Autores Tópico(s)Literature: history, themes, analysis
ResumoB ILLY BUDD, the last will and testament of Herman Melville, has long been a source of contention among his intellectual heirs. A simple story cloaking a complicated structure and spotted with apparent digressions, it inevitably stimulates the curiosity of the speculative intellect. In response to this stimulus a variety of interpretations ambiguously testifies to its richness, confusion, or both. This article, risking further confusion, proposes still another theory in the belief that within its framework other interpretations may find their justifications as elaborations of its several parts.
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