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...
Autor principal: | Wadlington, Warwick, 1938- (Autor) |
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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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