Object's details: The Narrator’s Self-Justifying Rhetoric in Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

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• Title:
  
  
  The Narrator’s Self-Justifying Rhetoric in Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
• Group publication title:
  
  
  Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Creator:
  
  
  DUR, Ali
   ;
  DURGUN, H. Sezgi Saraç
  
• Subject and Keywords:
  
  
  Bartleby
   ;
  stylistics
   ;
  discourse
   ;
  hyperbatons
   ;
  litotes
   ;
  epithets
• Abstract:
  
  
  This study explores Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (1853) by employing the lens of defamiliarization to accentuate the narrator’s self-justifying rhetoric aimed at shaping the reader’s perception of events and deflecting blame in Bartleby’s tragic tale. By focusing on the rhetorical devices in the narrative, this research aims to elaborate on their manipulative function in diminishing the emotional impact of Bartleby’s eccentric attitude, ultimately leading to his tragic demise in prison. Despite the narrator’s apparent internal conflict between conscience and prudence, a close examination of specific instances where he disrupts the standard syntax constructs a modest image of himself with litotes, and fosters disdain for the scrivener through epithets, reveals the narrator’s underlying anxiety about how the reader perceives his image. Through defamiliarization, Melville crafts a narrative where the familiar – such as the narrator’s supposed sincerity – is rendered strange, prompting readers to question the motives and reliability of the storyteller in portraying the tragedy of Bartleby.
• Place of publishing:
  
  Wrocław
• Date issued:
  
  2024
• Resource Type:
  
  
  text
   ;
  
  
  tekst
• Detailed Type:
  
  
  article
   ;
  
  
  artykuł
• Identifier:
  
  oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:141505  ; https://doi.org/10.34616/ajmp.2024.22.6  ;
  e-ISSN 2353-3218
   ;
  ISSN 2299-7164
• Language:
  
  eng
• Abstract Language :
  
  eng
• Access rights:
  
  
  Attribution, ShareAlike
   ;
  
  
  Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach
• License:
  
  
  Creative Commons - Attribution, ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en  ;
  
  
  Creative Commons - Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.pl
• Location of original object:
  
  
  College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław
   ;
  
  
  Kolegium Międzydziedzinowych Studiów Indywidualnych, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
• Autor opisu:
  
  
  MPi

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• Creation date: 2024-12-18
• Last modification date: 2024-12-18
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