Confidence Game in American Literature
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Aestheticism
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Ahab
Anecdote
Antithesis
Aphorism
Apologue
Author_Warwick Wadlington
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Bartleby
Benito Cereno
Billy Budd
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Category=DSB
Catharsis
Consciousness
COP=United States
Critical reading
Criticism
D. H. Lawrence
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Explanation
Fiction
G. (novel)
Hershel Parker
Huckleberry Finn
Humour
Idealization
Implied author
Invective
Irony
J. L. Austin
Joseph Conrad
Kenneth Burke
Language_English
Literary criticism
Literary fiction
Literature
Mardi
Mario Praz
Mark Twain
Melodrama
Moby-Dick
Mutatis mutandis
Narrative
Negative capability
New American Library
New rhetorics
Omoo
P. T. Barnum
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Pen name
Persuasion (novel)
Picaresque novel
Picturesque
Platitude
Plotinus
Preface
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Pyrrhic victory
Queequeg
Rake (character)
Reductio ad absurdum
Rhetoric
Robert Penn Warren
Romanticism
S. (Dorst novel)
Self-Reliance
Sentimentality
softlaunch
Solipsism
Soren Kierkegaard
Superiority (short story)
The Confidence-Man
The Narrator
The Philosopher
The Rhetoric of Irony
the Scrivener
Thought
Trickster
Typee
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691644813
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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' 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, and the world each envisions. Warwick Wadlington examines individual texts, as well as the pattern of each writer's total work. His book distinctively combines an enlarging archetypal frame with rhetorical analysis of the writer-reader imaginative act. Treated as different forms of a coherent mode of fictive experience, the works of these important authors illuminate each other.
Professor Wadlington's method results in decisively new readings of each text and contributes to a phenomenology of reading three writers whose works represent crucial "moments" in the artist-audience negotiation of mutual faith. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
