Melville's Confidence Man: From Knave to Knight |
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... novel in the same way that it operated on the Agatha material a few years earlier , a way essen- tially different from that employed in his earlier books . Rather than " spin a yarn " based on his own or someone else's experience , as ...
... novel in the same way that it operated on the Agatha material a few years earlier , a way essen- tially different from that employed in his earlier books . Rather than " spin a yarn " based on his own or someone else's experience , as ...
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... novel . Melville might well have considered the character of Hamlet the creative cause from which Shake- speare's play had finally developed in a way that he him- self wanted to emulate in creating his novel . Although no Hamlet - like ...
... novel . Melville might well have considered the character of Hamlet the creative cause from which Shake- speare's play had finally developed in a way that he him- self wanted to emulate in creating his novel . Although no Hamlet - like ...
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... novel much as Hamlet dominates Shakespeare's play or Don Qui- xote Cervantes's novel : the action of the main narrative is subordinate to him , and he has the capacity to reveal the nature of all those with whom he comes in contact . In ...
... novel much as Hamlet dominates Shakespeare's play or Don Qui- xote Cervantes's novel : the action of the main narrative is subordinate to him , and he has the capacity to reveal the nature of all those with whom he comes in contact . In ...
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