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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... face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel" (AU, 3). The contact that Clemens generated as he composed his fiction. 3. Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy ...
... face still another—and compelling— approach: the next interpretive battle may be over Huck's influence on how we see and understand family relationships. This places Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the center of the swirl over ...
... faces the image of his own death as he transports himself to the site of Jean's arrival and burial in Elmira. He did not make the funeral journey, but he imagines the scene: 2:30 P.m.—It is the time appointed. The funeral has begun ...
... face a Mark Twain who is deeply involved in the tradition of literary domesticity. His concerns are with hearth and home. With family. With the absence of family and the need to locate and develop emotional ties within an extended TWAIN ...
... 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 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Twain offers an exchange between Huck and Tom that epitomizes that ...
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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 |