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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... Himself 87 ROBERT SATTELMEYER Mark Twain, Isabel Lyon, and the “Talking Cure” Negotiating Nostalgia and Nihilism in the Autobiography 101 JENNIFER L. ZACCARA The Minstrel and the Detective The Functions of Ethnic Caricature.
... Autobiography If there is such a thing as a nonregulated and free literary marketplace , Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain has been and remains one of its hot com- modities . 1 Over the past eighty years there has been an avalanche of ...
... autobiographical method, "a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel" (AU, 3). The contact ...
... autobiographical contact of "flint to steel" crosses generations. To put it more directly, Clemens's life and works are being inscribed both by those who come recently from graduate school and by those who have lifelong investments in ...
... Autobiography , Kiskis interprets these disparate texts as evidence of Twain's concern with familial relationships . In Kiskis's view Twain consistently chose the home as the location to debate issues of morality . Vic Doyno wrestles ...
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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 |