Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight |
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Page 106
... feelings of that nov- el's hero . But in The Confidence - Man the narrator func- tions in a rather different way . The narrator of this novel is typically detached from the events he is describing and thoroughly ambiguous and ...
... feelings of that nov- el's hero . But in The Confidence - Man the narrator func- tions in a rather different way . The narrator of this novel is typically detached from the events he is describing and thoroughly ambiguous and ...
Page 125
... feelings . However , as he had done with the interpolated stories , the author neutralized and made ambiguous those irreverent passages by suggesting the possible madness of their speaker . Although Melville expressed his personal views ...
... feelings . However , as he had done with the interpolated stories , the author neutralized and made ambiguous those irreverent passages by suggesting the possible madness of their speaker . Although Melville expressed his personal views ...
Page 126
... feelings Melville expressed about Emerson in letters and in annotations to certain passages in books by or about the ... feeling that " came from his [ Melville's ] own heart . " In his satirical treatment of Mark Winsome and Eg- bert ...
... feelings Melville expressed about Emerson in letters and in annotations to certain passages in books by or about the ... feeling that " came from his [ Melville's ] own heart . " In his satirical treatment of Mark Winsome and Eg- bert ...
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