Melville S Benito Cereno

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547776789

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Benito Cereno & Bartleby by Herman Melville Pdf

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to." "Benito Cereno" is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.

Author : Robert E. Burkholder
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015029225870

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Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" by Robert E. Burkholder Pdf

A comprehensive collection of essays on one of the most important works of fiction in the 19th century, comprising both a gathering of early reviews, a broad selection of more modern scholarship, and three original essays--by Sterling Stuckey on the theme of cannibalism, Carolyn L. Karcher on the Amistad case, and H. Bruce Franklin on the historical backgrounds of Benito Cereno. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : William Donald Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016501790

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Melville's "Benito Cereno" by William Donald Richardson Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486264738

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Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

Two classics in one volume: "Bartleby," a disturbing moral allegory set in 19th-century New York, and "Benito Cereno," a gripping sea adventure that probes the nature of man's depravity.

Author : Enneriema Aunerz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668842274

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Herman Melville's Stylistic Devices in "Benito Cereno" by Enneriema Aunerz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Erfurt (Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät), course: Reading Course in Early American Literature, language: English, abstract: Herman Melville ́s novel "Benito Cereno" was published 1856 in "The Piazza Tales". It based on a real-life incident described in Amasa Delano ́s "Narrative of Voyages and valley in the Northern and Western Hemispheres" (1817). Relying on the source for the basic plot, Melville added a few additions to transform the factual report in a cryptic narrative relevant for readers of the 1850s. This term paper deals with the question of how the author deals with certain issues and why.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736874626

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

Das Werk "Benito Cereno" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Herman Melville, erstmals 1855 veröffentlicht. Herman Melville, geboren als Herman Melvill (* 1. August 1819 in New York City, New York; † 28. September 1891 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist. Melvilles "Moby-Dick" gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Romane der Weltliteratur.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443435062

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

When approached at sea by the slaver San Dominick, Captain Amasa Delano of the Bachelor’s Delight is struck by the Spanish ship’s dilapidated condition, her peculiar captain—Benito Cereno—and the strange atmosphere among the white crew and black slaves. While Delano accepts Cereno’s explanation of trying times aboard the Dominick, including the death of the slave master, Delano’s doubt persists, and the answers to his questions come in startling fashion. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Herman Melville, Compiled by Sparklesoup,Professor Herman Melville
Publisher : Sparklesoup LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781597486545

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Benito Cereno (Sparklesoup Classics) by Herman Melville, Compiled by Sparklesoup,Professor Herman Melville Pdf

Sparklesoup brings you Herman Melville's classic. This version is printable so you can mark up your copy and link to interesting facts and sites.

Author : Charles E. Nnolim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020703719

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Melville's "Benito Cereno" by Charles E. Nnolim Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005726273

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The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cerenno" -- a subversive satire -- of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781457660405

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066392376

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Bartleby & Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to."_x000D_ "Benito Cereno" is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519239017

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville Pdf

The Piazza Tales Benito Cereno Herman Melville Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville. It was first serialized in Putnam's Monthly in 1855 and later included a slightly revised version in his collection The Piazza Tales (1856). The story follows a sea captain, Amasa Delano, (the fictionalized version of a real-life adventurer by the same name) and his crew on the Bachelor's Delight as it is approached by another, rather battered-looking ship, the San Dominick. Upon boarding the San Dominick, Delano is immediately greeted by white sailors and black slaves begging for supplies. An inquisitive Delano ponders the mysterious social atmosphere aboard the badly bruised ship and notes the figurehead, which is mostly concealed by a tarpaulin revealing only the inscription: "Follow your leader." Delano soon encounters the ship's noticeably timid but polite Spanish captain, Don Benito Cereno. Cereno is constantly attended to by his personal slave, Babo, whom Cereno keeps in close company even when Delano suggests that Babo leave the two in private to discuss matters that are clearly being avoided. Delano, however, does not bother Cereno to ask questions about the odd superficiality of their conversation; he believes Cereno's assertion that he and his crew have recently gone through a debilitating series of troubles, having been at sea now for an unsettingly long time. Cereno tells of these tribulations, including horrendous weather patterns and the fate of the slaves' master, Alexandro Aranda, who Cereno claims took fever aboard the ship and died.

Author : Barbara Lier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638118279

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Benito Cereno: Delano -The Unreliable Narrator by Barbara Lier Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Good, University of Bonn (American-English Institute), course: Proseminar: Slavery & American Culture- History and Literature, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: INTRODUCTION "Benito Cereno" has been certified by one learned commentator as one of Herman Melville's "most superb achievements" 1, and it would seem that this judgement is well made. Simultaneously an exercise in ensnaring the reader in a tangled web of intrigue and a biting satire on the all too prevelant "passive" (and even "benign") racism of his time, the author uses one character above all others in this narrative to achieve his ends: the skipper of the "Bachelor's Delight," Captain Amasa Delano. The story is, for the most part, narrated via Captain Delano, and, although the question of "multi-perspective narrative," as one commentator has termed it, could pose one or two interesting problems, it seems reasonable to assume here that much - if not all - of the association of events in the story and the plentiful imagery and reference to symbolic figures occurs in Delano's own mind. Indeed, excluding – obviously – Benito Cereno's own deposition, Delano's is the only clear-cut point of view the reader is offered, and thus it would seem difficult to argue that we can see any more than the American Captain; although, crucially, we are able to "notice" more than he does. In other words, we are compelled to see through Delano's eyes, though we need not necessarily agree with the associational processes of his mind. Furthermore, it is often the case that, throughout the story, we find ourselves at odds with the American's conjectures – we do not travel with him during his occasional journies into the depths of paranoia, nor do we share his frequently blithe optimism. In short, even before the true state of affairs is made clear to us in the denouement, we do not trust Delano's view of events aboard the "San Dominick." [...]

Author : Professor Herman Melville,Fliegelman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312133618

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Benito Cereno by Professor Herman Melville,Fliegelman Pdf

This definitive, annotated edition offers an authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic short novel, accompanied by a generous selection of documents designed to give students a sense of the rich historical and cultural context of 19th century America. The documents are thematically organized into categories including Sources/Pretexts; Melville on Race/Violence; Catholicism, Empire, and the Union; Scientific Racism; and the Literature of Slave Rebellions in the 1850s. Materials include selections from Amasa Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Supreme Court arguments, a previously unpublished blackface skit, and Putnan's Magazine.