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The Confidence Game in American Literature
Warwick Wadlington
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Description for The Confidence Game in American Literature
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
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 understanding of the interrelation between the writer, his reader, ... Read more
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 understanding of the interrelation between the writer, his reader, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691644813
SKU
V9780691644813
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