Category: Humanities

Allusions as Web-Building Vehicles in V for Vendetta

  Abstract Some works call out to readers with an invitation to play an active role in the construction of the text’s meaning. Following the insights of Roland Barthes, who deems such texts “writerly,”...

Joke’s on You, Interpreters of “Bartleby”

  Abstract Some mysteries weren’t meant to be solved, but that doesn’t stop literary critics from trying to dissect Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Saber argues that Melville intentionally prevents concrete interpretation of his...