William Faulkner, William James, and the American pragmatic tradition / by Evans, David Howell, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : his veracity as a liar -- Make believe : the confidence man as protopragmatist -- Truth as "veri-fication" : William James and the transaction of confidence -- Retailing truth : making community in The hamlet -- Making history : pragmatic historiography and Absalom, Absalom! …”
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Strangers at home : American ethnic modernism between the World Wars / by Keresztesi, Rita

Table of Contents: “…A Prologue to Ethnic Modernism: Melville's Confidence Man; 2. Harlem Renaissance Masquerades; Countee Cullen; Nella Larsen; Zora Neale Hurston; 3. …”
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The rise and fall of Paramount Records : a great migration story, 1917-1932 / by Blackwood, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Mayo Williams: Impresario, Confidence Man, Champion of the Race -- 9. How to Make a Race Record -- 10. …”
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Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy : Beyond the Mainstream. by Kinzel, Till

Table of Contents: “…Joe Lockard, Antislavery Dialogues in the United StatesAntonio Lastra, From Walden to Waldwasen: Dialogues between Hermits and Poets (Thoreau, Heidegger, Celan); David Janssens, Melville's Song and Dance: Diabolical Dialogue in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade; Hans Ulrich Seeber, Stereotypes, Utopian Vision and the Creation of the Illusion of Life. …”
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