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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... interpretation - History - 20th century . 2. Criticism — United States - History - 20th century . I. Skandera - Trombley , Laura E. II . Kiskis , Michael J. III . Series . PS1337.3.C66 2002 813'.4 - dc21 TM * This paper meets the ...
... interpretation compel us to look back over the territory that has been explored to see how our own ideas have been shaped by the work of our predecessors. That foundation built of past scholarship gives. 2. Twain to William Dean Howells ...
... interpretation, not passive entertainment; in a variation of the call and response, he presented many of his stories ... interpret and write. Hence, this collec- tion. Surely, some will yawn or exclaim and complain, "No! Not Another ...
... interpretations handed down to us in an ongo- ing attempt to atomize a complex personality into pieces more easily cate- gorized and then described. Certainly, the fault in such work—if we decide to concentrate on fault at all—grows out ...
... interpretation of representations of race . To assist in framing his discussion , Smith reviews Tom Quirk's Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn as well as his own earlier publication " Huck , Jim , and American Racial Discourse " 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 |