Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to KnightUniversity of Missouri Press, 1982 - 174 Seiten |
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... plays many parts , the discrepancies in behavior , appearance , and motive seem too great to re- veal a single character behind each consecutive mask . The protean nature of Melville's confidence man , his ability to play so many ...
... plays many parts , the discrepancies in behavior , appearance , and motive seem too great to re- veal a single character behind each consecutive mask . The protean nature of Melville's confidence man , his ability to play so many ...
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... play had finally developed in a way that he him- self wanted to emulate in creating his novel . Although no Hamlet ... plays in this novel , and specific mention is made of such Shakespearean characters as Timon , Jack Cade ...
... play had finally developed in a way that he him- self wanted to emulate in creating his novel . Although no Hamlet ... plays in this novel , and specific mention is made of such Shakespearean characters as Timon , Jack Cade ...
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... play's success . If he was famil- iar with the play , his own literary use of the confidence man six years later may have been calculated to cash in on a subject that had already proved popular with the American public . Far from being ...
... play's success . If he was famil- iar with the play , his own literary use of the confidence man six years later may have been calculated to cash in on a subject that had already proved popular with the American public . Far from being ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 19 |
Chapter 3 | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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