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An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood.

Ambiguity in literature --- Ambiguïteit in de literatuur --- Ambiguïté dans la littérature --- Closure (Rhetoric) --- Conclusion (Rhétorique) --- Endings (Rhetoric) --- Last lines (Rhetoric) --- Peroratie --- Peroration --- Péroration --- Slot (Retoriek) --- American fiction --- Roman américain --- Conclusion (Littérature) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Roman américain --- Conclusion (Littérature) --- Ambiguïté dans la littérature --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Twain, Mark --- James, Henry --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Melville, Herman --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Ambiguity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric