tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425514987715337437.post2460125192828596122..comments2024-03-26T22:47:45.276-07:00Comments on Intro to Critical Reading: Melville's Robot vs. Ellison's ManAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425514987715337437.post-62801327843629508482012-04-14T08:56:38.381-07:002012-04-14T08:56:38.381-07:00This is a good reading. I think the merits of it ...This is a good reading. I think the merits of it will be even clearer to you when you finish the novel (if you haven't yet) - a mechanical man appears in the narrator's last vision which is highly amenable to this reading. While I don't think you're under any obligation to read the mechanization of the narrator through Melville specifically, I think that you *can*, and that your choice to do so is justifiable. The line about the narrator's psychology is obviously very amenable to a Marcusean reading - hypothetically, if you were going to revise this essay, I'd urge you to at least consider incorporating Marcuse into it. I think there's be a lot to gain by doing so (although you could also range more deeply just into the role of mechanization within both Moby-Dick and Invisible Man).Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com