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... title of the novel refers , remains in some doubt.1 This chapter will identify the confidence man as a single figure who assumes eight ... characters aboard the riverboat are actually the title character 49 Chapter 3 Melville's Antihero,
... title of the novel refers , remains in some doubt.1 This chapter will identify the confidence man as a single figure who assumes eight ... characters aboard the riverboat are actually the title character 49 Chapter 3 Melville's Antihero,
Page 54
... characters are types of confidence men , they could not have participated in the central charac- ter's masquerade because both have encounters with characters who might more reasonably be expected to be the title character in disguise ...
... characters are types of confidence men , they could not have participated in the central charac- ter's masquerade because both have encounters with characters who might more reasonably be expected to be the title character in disguise ...
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... character who provided the " skeleton of actual reality " on which the ... title of his book . In the first part of his story he had explored the ... character a certain symbolic significance by making his various manifestations in ...
... character who provided the " skeleton of actual reality " on which the ... title of his book . In the first part of his story he had explored the ... character a certain symbolic significance by making his various manifestations in ...
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