The confidence game in American literature /

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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wadlington, Warwick, 1938- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey ; London, England : Princeton University Press, 1975.
Collection:Princeton legacy library.
Sujets:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Swindlers and swindling in literature.
Tricksters in literature.
Deception in literature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Tricksters dans la littérature.
Tromperie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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