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... imagination in The Confidence - Man creates - according to the angle and mass of its local attack — the very scenes it so solidly particularizes.26 Which is to say that those very " significances " Melville found in his material had an ...
... imagination in The Confidence - Man creates - according to the angle and mass of its local attack — the very scenes it so solidly particularizes.26 Which is to say that those very " significances " Melville found in his material had an ...
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... imagination was as flex- ible in his approach to this book as it had been in Moby- Dick , and Pierre , and as it had been forced to be in Mardi . It seems especially unlikely that he composed Black Guinea's list when all the events he ...
... imagination was as flex- ible in his approach to this book as it had been in Moby- Dick , and Pierre , and as it had been forced to be in Mardi . It seems especially unlikely that he composed Black Guinea's list when all the events he ...
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... imagination , is no easy thing " ( 183 ) . Hershel Parker , in a note on this passage in the Norton edition of The Confi- dence - Man , suggests that it is " an oblique comment on the critical reception of some of Melville's earlier ...
... imagination , is no easy thing " ( 183 ) . Hershel Parker , in a note on this passage in the Norton edition of The Confi- dence - Man , suggests that it is " an oblique comment on the critical reception of some of Melville's earlier ...
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