Cycnos | Numéros | Volume 17.2 - Herman Melville : espaces d'écriture

Résumé :

The two-stranded story unfolds the manifold implications of producing sheets of paper. Even as the bodies of working women at the paper-mill are erased in the process, they seem to be raised to the stature of a Christ-like icon. Though the gullible narrator who has embarked on a latter-day errand into the wilderness is only too willing to subscribe to the shimmering apparition that looms up “on paper”;, his twice-told tale undercuts correspondences between filth and faith underwritten by Puritan typology and foregrounds the blankness of bible-leaves at cross-purposes with Scriptures.

Date de publication : 2008-07-15