Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight |
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Page 106
... narration , the narrator had served as an active commentator on and expositor of the thoughts 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 ...
... narration , the narrator had served as an active commentator on and expositor of the thoughts 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 ...
Page 112
... narrator of Cervantes's book , Cid Hamet , who is usually as unobtrusive as Melville's own narrator . In the back flyleaf of the second volume of his copy , Melville had kept a list of references to the Arabic narrator and may have paid ...
... narrator of Cervantes's book , Cid Hamet , who is usually as unobtrusive as Melville's own narrator . In the back flyleaf of the second volume of his copy , Melville had kept a list of references to the Arabic narrator and may have paid ...
Page 118
... narrator tells us , was probably written " in one of those disconsolate hours , attended with more or less mental aberration , perhaps , so fre- quent with him for some months prior to his end " ( 218 ) . But is the narrator to be ...
... narrator tells us , was probably written " in one of those disconsolate hours , attended with more or less mental aberration , perhaps , so fre- quent with him for some months prior to his end " ( 218 ) . But is the narrator to be ...
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