要旨は以下の通りです：
To reconsider the affective turn in
American literary studies, this essay reads Herman Melville's “Bartleby, the
Scrivener” (1853), with reference to “Benito Cereno” (1855) and The Confidence-Man (1857), as
an anti-affect story. By shedding light on silent characters in these works –
Bartleby, Babo, and Black Guinea – it argues that Melville endeavors to
adumbrate, not articulate, their private interiorities through language.
Calling the inner recesses of his silent characters “secret emotions,” Melville
probes into the boundaries between the effable and the ineffable by testing the
limits of literary language. If “affect” refers to the kind of emotion that
eludes signification through language, reading Melville in this manner
encourages a reappraisal of the relationship between affect as a non-linguistic
emotion and literature as a linguistic construct.
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