Search Results - "The Confidence-Man"

American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. …”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him : the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. …”
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New territories, new perspectives the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. …”
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New territories, new perspectives the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view