TY  - JOUR
T1  - Bartleby, the Epitome of Passitivity: an Elegy for Humankind
TT  - Bartleby, The Epitome of Passivity: An Elegy For Humandkind
AU  - Özilhan, Esra
PY  - 2012
DA  - April
JF  - Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
JO  - CUJHSS
PB  - Çankaya Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-6761
SP  - 333
EP  - 339
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
LA  - tr
AB  - In The Writing of the Disaster, Maurice Blanchot discusses the concepts of disaster, the Other, passivity, and responsibility. His aphorisms can help us to analyse the relationship between Bartleby and the narrator-attorney in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street”. This story presents significant insights into the relationship with the Other, and how the Other is a burden that each person involuntarily experiences. In this paper, I will discuss the reasons for, and the effects of, passive resistance, in addition to the inextricable feeling of responsibility that is experienced in the face of the Other.
KW  - Bartleby
KW  - Epitome
KW  - Passitivity
CR  - Blanchot, Maurice. The Writing of the Disaster [translated by Ann Smock] (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).
CR  - Deleuze, G. Essays Critical and Clinical [translated by Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco] (London: Verso, 1998).
CR  - Melville, Herman. Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, (Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 2005), p.2, < retrieved from http://courses.washington.edu/art361a/readings/herman_ melville.pdf, on 23thSeptember, 2012.
CR  - Sontag, Susan. Styles of Radical Will (New York: Picador, 2002).
CR  - qtd. in Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will (New York: Picador, 2002), p.13.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss/issue//53139
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/45406
ER  -