Accordingly, the Article asks that we think about Bartleby the way an architect might think about him.
frees itself of the principle of reason.”4 He is manifested more by the sound of his words - “I would prefer not to” - and the fact of his presence rather than how or when he appears. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the. “The green screen that isolates his desk traces the borders of an experimental laboratory in which potentiality. After all, the subtitle of Melville’s classic is “A Story of Wall Street” and, if Wall Street is about anything, surely it is about “walls.” Bartleby is surrounded by and embedded in walls and screens to such an extent that he can be heard but hardly ever seen. Herman Melvilles Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) was composed in a period when Melville was under the strong influence. It suggests that we do so from an architectural perspective. The interpretation advanced in this Article points to yet another way to think about Bartleby. The narrator of Bartleby, the Scrivener notes that John Jacob. he refers as clients but who appear to be bill collectors. A filmstrip and cassette of Bartleby the Scrivener was produced by Prentice-Hall Media in 1977. Stern as part of the Everett Edwards 1971 series, 19th-Century American Writers. The story is part of the law school curriculum and, as such, it is open to interpretation just like any other legal or quasi-legal text that law students may come across in a course of study and that lawyers may encounter in practice. Bartleby the Scrivener is available on audio-cassette read by Milton R. This may help to explain why yet another discussion of Bartleby, the Scrivener belongs in a law journal.
And then there is Bartleby himself, a law copyist who is hired to copy documents in the time-honored fashion in which legal instruments were duplicated in the centuries before our own age of endless duplication. It is, of course, a “law story” in that it takes place in a mid-nineteenth century law office where the principal character is the lawyer-narrator who runs the office and engages Bartleby. This Article revisits Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the enigmatic copyist who “prefers not to copy.” The story is a favorite in Law and Literature courses for reasons that defy complete explanation.