Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure''
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Katie Vann on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': "The function, then, of this myster story is to en
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Michelle Tantlinger on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Argument's Sake
Jenna on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': We are the Detectives http://blogs.setonhill.edu/
Mara Barreiro on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': 'Benito Cereno' may look very like a detective sto
Bethany Merryman on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Tim Gunn says MAKE IT WORK!!!
Derek Tickle on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Is it hard to Lend a helping hand of Freedom, Forg
Erica Gearhart on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Sorry, wrong link! http://blogs.setonhill.edu/Eric
Erica Gearhart on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': "That is why I insist on calling it a mystery stor
Greta Carroll on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': A Blending of Literary Schools Creates One Convinc
james lohr on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': "The mystery/detective story, involving as it does
Michelle Tantlinger on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Argument's Sake
Jenna on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': We are the Detectives http://blogs.setonhill.edu/
Mara Barreiro on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': 'Benito Cereno' may look very like a detective sto
Bethany Merryman on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Tim Gunn says MAKE IT WORK!!!
Derek Tickle on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Is it hard to Lend a helping hand of Freedom, Forg
Erica Gearhart on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': Sorry, wrong link! http://blogs.setonhill.edu/Eric
Erica Gearhart on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': "That is why I insist on calling it a mystery stor
Greta Carroll on Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure'': A Blending of Literary Schools Creates One Convinc
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A Blending of Literary Schools Creates One Convincing Claim
“That is why I insist on calling it a mystery story—for it is a detective story where the reader on reading and, crucially, rereading the story has to learn not only to be the detective who could have solved the crime, but to decide what the crime was and who the real criminal is” (Swann 311).
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"That is why I insist on calling it a mystery story-- for it is a detective story where the reader on reading and, crucially, rereading the story has to learn not only to be the detective who could have solved the crime, but to decide what the crime was and who the real criminal is."
-From Charles Swann's "Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism page 311
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=31167&blog_id=447&saved_added=1
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'Benito Cereno' may look very like a detective story with Delano as a Watson minus Holmes, but, of course, Melville is an artist and "Benito Cereno" is literature; therefore, it is much better than any mere detective story could be.
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Argument's Sake
"The mystery/detective story, involving as it does so clearly questions of crime and punishment, confronts questions of authority in society" (Swann 317).
"The function, then, of this myster story is to enable us to read this sentence -- to re-read the whole story in order to set it in the right, hidden narrative. All through 'Benito Cereno' sentences change their meanings on re-reading" (Swann 324).