ABSTRACT

This essay investigates the fraught question of the measure of pain in a selection of Melville's writings and examines how the articulation of pain is underwritten by a contest between the claims of arithmetic and the claims of literature. Closely reading scenes of thwarted measurements of pain in ‘The Encantadas’ (1854), Moby-Dick (1851), and ‘Bartleby’ (1853), it argues that, while the problem of pain for Melville may begin on the terrain of epistemology, it ends in the realm of literary representation, as the language of pain moves from figures to figuration.

中文翻译：

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“我必须重新计算”：梅尔维尔的疼痛测量

摘要

这篇文章调查了梅尔维尔精选的一些著作中关于疼痛度量的令人担忧的问题，并检查了如何通过算术主张和文学主张之间的竞争来支持疼痛的表达。仔细阅读“The Encantadas”（1854）、“白鲸”（1851）和“Bartleby”（1853）中疼痛测量受阻的场景，它认为，虽然梅尔维尔的疼痛问题可能始于认识论的领域，它在文学表现的领域结束，因为痛苦的语言从形象转移到形象。