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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... death . Hundreds of gallons of ink have been spilled in tribute to the writer and to his literary alter ego . From Clemens's ever - so - careful attempts to use the press to create and fine - tune his public persona to the thousands of ...
... death is now in sight (a mere nine years from this writing). That anniversary is worth pointing to as an indicator of Clemens's staying power. As prelude to what will no doubt be the equivalent to a scholarly frenzy, we thought it ...
... Death of Jean , " and the 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 ...
... Death of Jean," and the Autobiography. My experience as a reader of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn during the past fifteen years has introduced me to a variety of critical judgments rang- ing from the complaints against Huck's obstinate ...
... Death and saying he would kill me and then I couldn't come for him no more . I begged and told him I was only Huck , and he laughed such a screechy laugh , and roared and cussed , and kept on chasing me up . Once when I turned short and ...
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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 |