잘려나간 굴뚝과 남성 작가의 좌절: 멜빌의 단편소설 연구 = The Beheaded Chimney and the Defeated Masculine Genius: A Study of Melville`s Short Stories

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Among Melville`s magazine stories written between 1853 and 1855, many deal with figures for the failed male artist placed in a variety of domestic, social, and commercial settings. In this paper, I discuss his three later stories, Jimmy Rose, The Apple-Tree Table, and I and My Chimney, in which the old-fashioned male householders and the female family members with more modern spirit in everything compete for the authority in the house. I argue that this lond of gender conflict between the male and the female m the domestic setting can be read as a projection of Melville`s conflict with the feminized literary marketplace at the time Therefore, mainly focusing on the last short story, I am trying to figure out Melville`s perspective on the marketplace and domestic relationship of the male protagonist and on the consequence for himself to his vision. I and My Chimney features, in the narrator`s relation to its central symbol, one of the author`s richest images for the need to defend masculine genius against the assaults of a feminizing world The beheaded chimney, which the narrator calls his backbone, functions as a kind of phallic monument to Melville`s own literary career, damaged but not destroyed, and with its foundations still in place.