Herman Melville's Stylistic Devices in "Benito Cereno"

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Erfurt (Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät), course: Reading Course in Early American Literature, language: English, abstract: Herman Melville¿s novel "Benito Cereno" was published 1856 in "The Piazza Tales". It based on a real-life incident described in Amasa Delanös "Narrative of Voyages and valley in the Northern and Western Hemispheres" (1817). Relying on the source for the basic plot, Melville added a few additions to transform the factual report in a cryptic narrative relevant for readers of the 1850s. This term paper deals with the question of how the author deals with certain issues and why.