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The Confidence Game in American Literature /
Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence. The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers�...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
Princeton University Press,
1975.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; 1. Akin to Genesis; Part 1. Herman Melville: In Trust Never Theless; Part 2. Mark Twain: The Authority of the Courtier; Part 3. Nathanael West; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence. The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis of the social motivations inherent in the fiction. The author concentrates on the process by which confidence is established and the ways in which deception leads to regeneration and an altered perception of authority. His approach increases our unde. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Tricksters in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01156646 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Swindlers and swindling in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01140418 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Deception in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00888981 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a American fiction. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x American |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x European |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Tromperie dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Tricksters dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Roman americain |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Deception in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Tricksters in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Swindlers and swindling in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |x History and criticism. | |
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