Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Confidence Game in American LiteratureCondition: NewISBN-10: 0691617716EAN: 9780691617718ISBN: 9780691617718Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/08/2015Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 482gAuthor: Warwick WadlingtonGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Princeton Legacy LibraryRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Confidence Game in American Literature
Title: The Confidence Game in American Literature
ISBN-10: 0691617716
EAN: 9780691617718
ISBN: 9780691617718
Release Date: 03/08/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 346 Pages
Publication Name: Confidence Game in American Literature
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: European / General, General, American / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Item Length: 10.1 in
Author: Warwick Wadlington
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
