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The Interweaving of Resistance and Submission Under the Walls - A Stylistic Analysis of “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
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Department of Foreign Languages, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
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JASES 2025 7(1):232; https://doi.org/10.69610/j.ases.20250228
Received: / Accepted: / Published Online: 28 February 2025
Abstract
The combination of literary stylistics and narratological stylistics provides a broader perspective for reading literary works. Taking the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” by the 19th century American writer Herman Melville as an example, this paper explores the scriveners’ resistance and submission in the novel from the lexical, syntactic and rhetorical levels of literary stylistics and the point of view of narratological stylistics respectively. The results present that the scriveners all show the resistance to different degrees, but the submission of Turkey and Nippers prevails over resistance; only Bartleby’s resistance finally gives the old lawyer a sense of crisis and awakens the soft side of the old lawyer’s heart.
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Huang, J. The Interweaving of Resistance and Submission Under the Walls - A Stylistic Analysis of “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies, 2025, 7, 232. doi:10.69610/j.ases.20250228
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Huang J. The Interweaving of Resistance and Submission Under the Walls - A Stylistic Analysis of “Bartleby, the Scrivener”. Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies; 2025, 7(1):232. doi:10.69610/j.ases.20250228
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Huang, Junpeng 2025. "The Interweaving of Resistance and Submission Under the Walls - A Stylistic Analysis of “Bartleby, the Scrivener”" Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies 7, no.1:232. doi:10.69610/j.ases.20250228
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