Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in ScholarshipMichael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley University of Missouri Press, 2001 - 252 Seiten The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens. |
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... find some tie to the world around us, something that takes us to a new understanding of ourselves and takes us to a deeper ap- preciation of the aesthetic and ethical demands that are placed upon us by our own lives. We explore and ...
... find the complexity of the human being that is the kernel of the image. This work of literary carpentry is the drive behind this series of essays. Typical analogies of restoration or reclamation do not fit here. Both inti- mate a return ...
... find a moral ... will be banished " ( Case , 27 ) . Huck tried . And he was banished . Huck and Mark Twain , and Samuel Clemens — left a story to us steeped in domestic concerns in the hopes that we would come to understand the primacy ...
... find more seductive , more broadly political , more socially sophisticated readings , we still must face the reality at the heart of Twain's stories — that pain is at the center of home and grows out of the search for home . At the end ...
... find peace , to find a place to lie comfortably content with our mortality . To find a home . To hear the whine of the spinning wheel and think not of the mournfulest sound but of the peace of your own bed . Mark Twain eventually left ...
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To his preferred friends he revealed his true character | 50 |
Mark Twains Mechanical Marvels | 72 |
Steamboats Cocaine and Paper Money | 87 |
Mark Twain Isabel Lyon and the Talking Cure | 101 |
The Minstrel and the Detective | 122 |
Huck Jim and the BlackandWhite Fallacy | 139 |
Black Genes and White Lies | 169 |
Mark Twain in Large and Small | 191 |
Who Killed Mark Twain? Long Live Samuel Clemens | 218 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 239 |