一个完全原创的失败:梅尔维尔在《信心人》中想象的读者

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M. Seybold
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摘要

本文探讨了赫尔曼·梅尔维尔如何利用愚人节恶作剧的优雅结构,不仅预测了他1857年最后一部小说在评论界和商业上的失败,而且还预测了这位20世纪文学学者的倾向。《自信的人》同时也让很多人把它当作寓言来解读,通过一系列日益对立的元虚构穿插,梅尔维尔的叙述者痛斥他想象中的读者,以及所有读者虚幻的期望、虚伪的标准和不合理的阅读习惯。
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Quite an Original Failure: Melville’s Imagined Reader in The Confidence-Man
This article explores how Herman Melville uses the elegant structure of the April Fool’s Day prank to anticipate not only the critical and commercial failure of his final novel in 1857, but also the proclivities of the twentieth-century literary scholar. The Confidence-Man simultaneously invites and defies the many attempts to read it as allegory and, through a series of increasingly antagonistic metafictional interludes, Melville’s narrator berates his imagined reader and, vicariously, all his readers for their delusional expectations, hypocritical standards, and otherwise irrational reading habits.
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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History
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期刊介绍: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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