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The Confidence Game in American Literature

About 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' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis o

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691617718
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 346
  • Published:
  • March 7, 2015
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x235x0 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 482 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: September 24, 2025

Description of 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' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis o

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