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Step Right Up

Miranda, James M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427883199

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
The dissertation is divided into two sections: an essay titled "The Genuine Fake: A Look at the Long Con of American Fiction" and a book manuscript titled, Step Right Up/ "The Genuine Fake: A Look at the Long Con of American Fiction" presents a historiographical survey of the phenomenon of the "confidence man" in American culture and fiction. The essay positions the confidence man as a central figure in an ongoing national identity discourse. It looks to American fiction, beginning in the antebellum period and continuing up through the modern and postmodern age, as a means of deciphering certain cultural shifts in attitude with regard to authenticity and imitation. Step Right Up is composed of short stories that attempt to participate in, subvert, and distort certain elements of this discourse. The stories regularly dissect the prevailing mythos of the "self-made man" in America. Through their experimentation with voice, form, point-of-view, and language, they are fraught with cultural and individual notions of what constitutes the genuine and the artificial in the contemporary American landscape.
Patrick O'Keeffe, MFA (Committee Chair)
Paul Jones, PHD (Committee Member)
Dinty Moore, MFA (Committee Member)
Michael Gillespie, PHD (Committee Member)
271 p.
American Literature
Step Right Up; Contemporary Fiction; Confidence Man; Authenticity; Artifice; Short Stories; American Literature; Collection

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  • Miranda, J. M. (2015). Step Right Up [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427883199

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miranda, James. Step Right Up. 2015. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427883199.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miranda, James. "Step Right Up." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427883199

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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