Ambiguity in Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street

Ziming Tang

《Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences》 2卷3期 (2022/03) Pp. 20-24

https://doi.org/10.29561/FHSS.202203_2(3).0005

摘要

Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall‐street is a short fiction written by American writer Herman Melville. This paper mainly focuses on the analysis of the ambiguous artistic feature and the ambiguous theme in this work. Through analyzing the ambiguity in characterization and ambiguity in images in Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-street, this paper provides readers with more possibilities to better appreciate and understand this short fiction.

關鍵字

Bartleby ； The Scrivener: A Story of Wall‐street ； Herman Melville ； Ambiguity

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Melville, Herman: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street. (Harper Collins Publishers, Australia 2009).