Billy Budd
Two Concepts of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3200680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John B Noone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249 |
| Publication date | 1957-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2922460 |
| OpenAlex | W2325065155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
B ILLY BUDD, the last will and testament of Herman Melville, has long been a source of contention among his intellectual heirs. A simple story cloaking a complicated structure and spotted with apparent digressions, it inevitably stimulates the curiosity of the speculative intellect. In response to this stimulus a variety of interpretations ambiguously testifies to its richness, confusion, or both. This article, risking further confusion, proposes still another theory in the belief that within its framework other interpretations may find their justifications as elaborations of its several parts
Art · Epistemology · Literature · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2024 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |