Masqueraded Text and Its Unreadability in Herman Melville's Confidence-Man
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Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man is often discussed with Bahktinian notion of mask/masquerade in order to explain the various avatars of the confidence-man. However, Melville uses masks to reveal epistemological problems in the relationship between writer and reader. With the various use of masks every chapter, he attempts to create various narratives in the grand-narrative in a way to interact between writer and reader. In doing so, he aims to form the undetermined meanings of the narrative that can be made both by writer and reader. However, Melville shows that when they fail to create such a cooperative narrative, the narrative becomes unreadable. Melville's various characters attempt to reach such a proper narrative through the confidence-man's continuous contact with various passengers on the steamboat, the microcosm of American society. However, he fails to show this and gives reader the landscape of the nation full of distrust and leave the text with unreadability for reader.
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Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man is often discussed with Bahktinian notion of mask/masquerade in order to explain the various avatars of the confidence-man. However, Melville uses masks to reveal epistemological problems in the relationship between writer and reader. With the various use of masks every chapter, he attempts to create various narratives in the grand-narrative in a way to interact between writer and reader. In doing so, he aims to form the undetermined meanings of the narrative that can be made both by writer and reader. However, Melville shows that when they fail to create such a cooperative narrative, the narrative becomes unreadable. Melville's various characters attempt to reach such a proper narrative through the confidence-man's continuous contact with various passengers on the steamboat, the microcosm of American society. However, he fails to show this and gives reader the landscape of the nation full of distrust and leave the text with unreadability for reader.
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