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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... Huck , Jim , and the “ Black - and - White " Fallacy 139 JAMES S. LEONARD Humor , Sentimentality , and Mark Twain's Black Characters 151 DAVID L. SMITH Black Genes and White Lies Twain and the Romance of Race 169 ANN M. RYAN Mark Twain ...
... Huck Finn Motel and relax while watching Twain visit the folks on Bonanza or Star Trek and snacking on Mark Twain macadamia nuts. In New Orleans the Mark Twain Pizzeria features Twain gazing through the glass front window—Mark Twain and ...
... Huck , Jim , and the ' Black - and- White ' Fallacy " finds Twain's use of logic in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn highlighted when writing about racial issues . Naturally , Huck's decision to " go to hell " is featured , as is the ...
... Huck Black ? Twain's use of dialect , Smith argues , provides readers with more than " soci- olinguistic verisimilitude , " and exchanges about dialect are by their nature " politically charged . " Ann Ryan takes issue with critics and ...
... Huck Finn versus the "sivilizing" Widow Douglas. The paradigm of the dreamer's flight from the shrew defines the domestic as a pole from which the individual must escape in order to establish and preserve his identity. Huck lights out ...
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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 |