LEADER 03930nam 22006975 450 001 9910631095503321 005 20251009102748.0 010 $a9783031126888$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031126871 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-12688-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7141224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7141224 035 $a(CKB)25361052200041 035 $a(OCoLC)1351203420 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-12688-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925361052200041 100 $a20221115d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Multiverse of Office Fiction $eBartlebys at Work /$fby Masaomi Kobayashi 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kobayashi, Masaomi The Multiverse of Office Fiction Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031126871 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue Edward Hopper, or Bartleby on Bartlebys -- Part I Reading Out -- Chapter One Advice Columnist, Auto-Recall Specialist, Cyber Capitalist: Bartleby and His Kinsmen -- Chapter Two At Work, At Home, At Life: Bartleby and His Kinswomen -- Part II Farther Along -- Chapter Three Poe, Kafka, and Far Beyond: Bartleby and His Contexts -- Chapter Four Post-9/11, Posthuman, Post Office: Between and Beyond Bartlebys -- Epilogue Every Office Tells a Story and So Does Every Bartleby. 330 $aThe Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville?s 1853 classic, ?Bartleby, the Scrivener,? from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction?fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees?as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role not as one of the most eccentric characters in literary fiction, but rather as one of the most generic characters in office fiction. Overall, this book demonstrates that Bartleby is a generative figure, by incorporating a wide diversity of his cousins as Bartlebys. It offers fresh contexts in which to place these characters so that it can ultimately contribute to an ever-evolving poetics of the office. Masaomi Kobayashi is Associate Professor at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He has coedited and coauthored books on literature and English. His articles have been published in a variety of academic journals, both national and international. 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthnology$zAmerica 606 $aCulture 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Criticism 606 $aAmerican Culture 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Criticism. 615 24$aAmerican Culture. 676 $a813 676 $a813.009355 700 $aKobayashi$b Masaomi$01264871 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910631095503321 996 $aThe Multiverse of Office Fiction$92965738 997 $aUNINA